South Korea's building a whole city to test self-driving cars

South Korea is making a big move into the self-driving car development space. Like, "building an entire mock-city dedicated for self-driving cars" big. The country's government will open K-City, an 88-acre urban complex constructed specifically to test autonomous vehicles, later this October, according to Business Korea. The test bed, which is designed to mimic real road conditions with bus lanes, expressways, and special zones for autonomous parking, will be the biggest self-driving car testing facility in the world when it's finished, eclipsing the University of Michigan's 32-acre MCity testing space by over 50 acres. K-City is meant to give South Korean companies a chance to fine-tune self-driving tech in realistic conditions without going through the lengthy permit process needed to take the cars out onto public streets.