South Korea will soon open an 88-acre facility with everything an autonomous car might encounter, including expressways, parking areas and bus-only lanes, according to the Korea Business Times. First announced last year, it will be the world’s largest, dwarfing Michigan’s 32-acre Mcity facility that it’s reportedly based on. The idea is to let companies test self-driving tech in a repeatable way, without the hard-to-get permits normally required to test vehicles on Korea’s public roads.
South Korea produces some of the world’s most popular cars, but is well behind other nations in allowing self-driving vehicles on its…