The Gainesville Sun, July 1, 2018
Last June the university was granted its accreditation. That came six months ahead of schedule and opened the path to another major achievement: awarding its inaugural freshman class their degrees, which occurred in May. Those events sandwiched the launch of Florida Poly’s key research project in November: SunTrax, a multifacted $42 million effort by the Florida Turnpike Enterprise now under construction near Auburndale. The agency chose Florida Poly to further research on technology for driverless cars, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and toll booths.