TEL AVIV, Israel - The former director of the Israeli Internal Security Service said Tuesday that auto makers should stop development of autonomous vehicles until the world auto industry solves the cyber security problem with the help of academia and governments. Yuval Diskin, now chairman of CyMotive Technologies, warned that the current auto industry practice
ANN ARBOR - Starting this fall, students at the University of Michigan will have access to an entirely new form of transportation in the form of this adorable, completely autonomous shuttle bus. The university plans to deploy two of the shuttles, manufactured by French startup Navya, to service a two-mile route between the Lurie Engineering
ROYAL OAK - Talent, talent, talent is what is needed to keep Michigan at the forefront of auto technology, David Cole, Chairman of Auto Harvest, said on this segment of M2 TechCast. Skilled trades and technicians, engineers with electro mechanical skills, are at the top of the list. Cole said the productivity improvements with the
ANN ARBOR - Americans love their pickup trucks, SUVs and minivans, as long as they believe they can afford them, a new University of Michigan study confirms. Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the U-M Transportation Research Institute examined the relationship between relative sales of cars (passenger cars and stations wagons) and light trucks (pickup
ANN ARBOR - Camel Energy will invest $4.6 million to build a research and development headquarters in the Ann Arbor region. Camel Energy manufactures batteries for cars, electric vehicles, agriculture and other applications. Camel Energy chose the Ann Arbor region over competing sites in Texas and California. “Camel Energy is excited to open its North
MARSHALL - For the fourth consecutive year, the team from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, placed first at the Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage student competition, recording the highest ever fuel economy results for the event, achieving 4,113 miles per gallon. A total of 16 collegiate teams (11 from the U.S. and 5 from Canada)
ANN ARBOR — The San Diego battery industry consultant PlugVolt LLC will hold its 2017 Battery Seminar in July in Ann Arbor. The event will feature experts from automotive and grid power storage manufacturers, industry suppliers, and battery manufacturers. The first day of the event will focus on electrochemistry, with presentations on the latest advances in
DETROIT — Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next year in what may be the first attempt at unassisted autonomous piloting. Automotive electronics and parts maker Delphi and French transport company Transdev plan to use autonomous taxis and a shuttle van to
DETROIT - Southeast Michigan’s Connected and Automated Vehicles network is burgeoning, with 351 organizations identified, including automotive, software, legal, construction, government and manufacturing. The report also found nearly 1,400 relationships already developed between these organizations, a significant sign that a healthy, collaborative climate is being fostered in the region – a dynamic vital to long-term
ANN ARBOR - Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions of miles they would need to log for consumers to consider them road-ready. The process, which was developed using data from more than 25 million miles of real-world driving, can cut the
