Forwarding what I said in the
other thread:
Interesting for this news to drop now.
What confuses me is that I thought the whole idea of the Agile projects was supposed to be a follow-on program to the U2C, taking the completed project downtown and applying its lessons to create dozens of new AV networks on campuses across the region. This is the first time I've heard of it proposed as part of the R&D (sorry, "Test & Learn") for the U2C itself.
More importantly, I don't really see how this would address any of the known challenges with the U2C. FSCJ isn't the size of a football stadium, it doesn't sound like this strays far away from the campus if at all, hasn't navigated any of the regulatory issues including the very low speed limit. What would this do that no other AV pilot has done? How would it be any better or different than the SWAN shuttle, or the runs in Gainesville, or any number of other previous AV pilot programs?