Why Beverly Hills?

Beverly Hills is right-sized.  At 5.7 square miles, Beverly Hills is large enough to be statistically significant yet small enough to be manageable.

Beverly Hills is ready.  Beverly Hills’ infrastructure is tailor-made for autonomous vehicles.  The city’s roads are superb and a sophisticated fiber optic cable network is currently being designed to bring high-speed internet to every business and resident. This system will allow the sensor technology that powers autonomous vehicles to be quickly and cost-effectively added, permitting vehicles to communicate with the city’s electronic grid and with each other.

Beverly Hills is scalable.  Autonomous vehicles serve as a platform for the addition of other sensors that aid in public safety.  An AV program will allow the city to leverage our robust CCTV program, license plate recognition system and traffic monitoring applications.

Beverly Hills is poised to connect.  An on-demand, autonomous vehicle shuttle service will bridge the critical ‘first/last mile’ gap with the planned extension of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system.