Test Track Reopening Date Announced and New Details Revealed for the Updated Attraction at Walt Disney World's EPCOT

Alongside breathtaking caller details, Disney has announced that EPCOT's Test Track presented by General Motors astatine Walt Disney World Resort volition reopen connected July 22, 2025.

As elaborate by Disney Parks Blog, this attraction update has added an all-new philharmonic people and "new scenes that item exertion making our cars smarter and our lives much fun."

One of the caller scenes showcases "how vehicles tin usage precocious cameras and sensors to 'see' the satellite they thrust through." It's a practice of however self-driving cars tin navigate without a operator and however LiDAR exertion is utilized to support everyone safe.

Speaking of the existent world, Disney besides shared that, portion past iterations of Test Track were acceptable successful a "conceptual world," this caller instrumentality is "rooted successful reality." To execute that, portion of Test Track volition consciousness arsenic though guests are driving though the Pacific Northwest.

"In our reimagined Test Track, we're truly celebrating the pleasance of driving and going connected a scenic thrust with your friends and family," Walt Disney Imagineering's Nathaniel Gearhart said. "It's astir taking these trips that are representation makers."

To bring that to life, they narrowed successful connected 4 taxon of trees - Cedar, Spruce, Maple, and Oak - that would beryllium included to correspond that portion and marque it consciousness authentic, implicit with a ton of overhead foliage to enactment arsenic the canopy of these trees.

Test Track 1.0 officially opened successful 1999, Test Track 2.0 opened successful 2012, and Test Track 3.0 volition yet marque its debut successful 2025 aft closing for these upgrades connected June 17, 2024.

This is conscionable 1 of the galore things guests person to look guardant to astatine Walt Disney World this summer, and it's portion of our 14 reasons this play is simply a large clip to sojourn the Disney World acknowledgment to Cool Kid Summer.

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