Original Article, M. Van Dongen, April 13, 2021
Squint long enough at the newly installed cameras above three east Mountain intersections and you might see a Hamilton future that includes autonomous cars.
The “Smart City” technology, now visible on three utility poles along Stone Church Road, is meant to collect data — via video, weather sensors, radio wave and laser-detection — in a real-world test environment for “connected vehicle” research coordinated by the Centre for Integrated Transportation and Mobility (CITM). The Hamilton research site is one of six in a provincially funded Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network.
