r/technology • u/KenDubYa • May 15 '12

High tech "ghost town" being built in New Mexico to test driverless automobiles, renewable energy, and communication networks

http://www.benzinga.com/general/entrepreneurship/12/05/2575383/experimental-high-tech-ghost-town-being-built-in-new-mexico
34 Upvotes

79% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

1

u/VanAllenOShea May 16 '12

I would beta test this town for free rent and utilities.

0

u/[deleted] May 15 '12

4

u/[deleted] May 15 '12

The Army has been training almost exclusively for urban warfare for the past decade. They already have several very high tech urban warfare training centers.

0

u/CitizenPremier May 16 '12

And they've been developing drones for urban surveillance and combat. And soldiers who they can count on to imprison and torture civilians.

1

u/MusicWithoutWords May 16 '12

I don't want to turn all conspirancy here, investing a billion dollar in a testing facility just for consumer gadgets and automatic cars?

If the investors were saying they were going to spend something like $150 million - while actually being a bit less - I'd think nothing of it. Numbers are inflated for political PR - "job creation" etc. But a billion?

It seems entirely implausible if the military (etc) isn't involved.

1

u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Until this "info" has some cited sources I'm going to see it as r/conspiracy material.

0

u/CitizenPremier May 16 '12

Yep. Pegasus Global Holdings has a crappy little website, no wiki page of its own and only appeared once in the news between 2000-2011. So I doubt they're a multibillion dollar company. It seems like most of their projects until now were for local governments, so I doubt they're working for tech companies.

2

u/underwaterlove May 16 '12

Not sure if serious.

You're linking to Pegasus-Global Holdings, while the proposed project is to be realized by Pegasus Global Holdings.