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"Name: Nissan Technical Center North America&amp;#039;s Arizona Testing Center (ATC), the company&amp;#039;s premier test facility for the Americas. Location: A barren, five-square-mile census-designated place in Stanfield, Arizona. Capabilities: Hot- and cold-weather simulation; high altitude; high speed (using a six-mile oval); crash; powertrain; durability. According to ATC director Steve Monk, the site focuses on &amp;quot;comfort and ride-and-handling events that are important for the North American region.&amp;quot; That means scouring the continent for challenging, aggravating, and crappy roads, hiring a civil engineering firm for surveying purposes, then precisely replicating those roads on the grounds of the 3050-acre facility. &amp;quot;We have wavy asphalt roads from Florida, broken concrete from Michigan, turns and elevation changes from the San Gabriel Mountains, and two turns that replicate racetracks,&amp;quot; Monk says. Recent bonkers project:  Nissan&amp;#039;s Taxi of Tomorrow  In late October, 13,000 yellow Nissan NV200 light commercial vans hit the streets of New York\u2014the &amp;quot;Taxis of Tomorrow,&amp;quot; or the Big Apple&amp;#039;s controversial new livery vehicle. To help a Japanese vanlet hack NYC&amp;#039;s notoriously difficult streets, the ATC recreated a stretch of Guy R. Brewer Boulevard, a commercial strip near JFK airport that&amp;#039;s widely viewed as the worst road in New York. The quarter-mile concretion, replicated for a cost of $640,000, was chosen for the hideous body motions generated by its patched surface and severe heaves. &amp;quot;The road is very, very busy,&amp;quot; Monk says. &amp;quot;[A vehicle there is] in constant motion, and the level of front and rear inputs is very different, which causes a lot of pitching. Driving it was not something you wanted to do after lunch.&amp;quot;  Comprehensive testing and tweaking means the Taxi of Tomorrow finally conquered the &amp;quot;Roughness Road&amp;quot;\u2014as it&amp;#039;s known internally\u2014before launch, but changes to the test road itself are still under discussion: Monk wants to paint a Yankees emblem at the beginning of the stretch, though he notes that &amp;quot;no one else seems to agree with that.&amp;quot; Brett Berk drives the Nissan Taxi of Tomorrow "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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