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CTOnews.com, 11 / 11 / PRNewswire-FirstCall-Asianet /-- the world's largest self-driving car test, conducted by Vanderbilt University and several other universities in cooperation with Nissan, Toyota, General Motors and the Tennessee Department of Transportation, will be conducted next week, according to Teslarati.

Autopilot is one of the most important technologies in the automotive industry, but safety is also a problem that must be solved. So, to test the impact of self-driving cars on real-world driving, a group of traditional carmakers are taking the world's largest self-driving test on a highway near Nashville, Tennessee. The researchers will observe the impact of self-driving on the traffic rhythm and try to determine whether self-driving cars can reduce man-made traffic jams.

According to Vanderbilt University, the autopilot test will be conducted under strict restrictions. The university will deploy 100 self-driving cars on the four-mile section of the Imer24 highway, which will be tested between 5 a.m. and 10:30 Test vehicles include the Nissan Rouge, Toyota RAV4 and Cadillac XT5, each equipped with self-driving technology.

Earlier this year, the university conducted a small-scale test on a test section with a total of 20 cars, which found that one self-driving car could affect the speed of the entire team. Now they will study whether the preliminary results can be replicated in the real world, and the researchers will also see whether the improvement in average fuel economy seen in smaller tests will be repeated.

There are special reasons why section 24 of Imure in Nashville was chosen as the test site. The section, named the "Imur24 MOTION Test platform" and equipped with 300 4K cameras placed on poles 600ft apart along the road, collects the average speed of traffic and other statistics and provides a very good perspective on individual self-driving cars and how they interact with other vehicles.

Carmakers will use the test to observe the performance of their own (and competitors) vehicles in the real world, which may lead to advances in self-driving.

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