Consumer Reports built $1 million road to test semi-automated driving features

Consumer Reports has opened a $1 million test track that will be used to evaluate advanced driver assistance systems like Tesla's Autopilot. Consumer Reports test drives around 50 new vehicles annually at its facility in Connecticut each year. And each year, the cars get better at driving themselves … at least a little. Semi-automated advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), like blind-spot monitors, lane-centering steering and Tesla's Autopilot, are becoming more and more common as cars inch toward full self-driving capability. Now, the organization has built a 1.5-mile track specifically to evaluate the technology.