May 10 (UPI) -- South Korea plans to open the world's largest test site for self-driving cars in October, government officials said.
K-City, an 88-acre site, is under construction and will provide testing ground as large as a city, according the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure & Transport said.
K-City will be twice the size of MCity, the vehicle testing site in Ann Arbor, Mich.
But it will be dwarfed by the new American Center for Mobility in Ypsilanti, Mich. The U.S. Department of Transportation broke ground on the 335-acre Willow Run site last year.
South Korea began testing self-driving cars across the country last year. K-City's test bed will provide bus-only lanes, expressways and parking zones in a controlled environment.
K-City will be used by South Korean companies SK Telecom, Naver, Samsung and automakers Hyundai and Kia.
Samsung, the world's No. 1 smartphone manufacturer, recently gained approval to test self-driving cars on South Korea's public roads.
