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Autonomous Vehicles

News and information about vehicles which can drive themselves without human supervision or input. Unmanned vehicles are vehicles which are either controlled remotely, or perhaps operate autonomously.

American Center For Mobility To Work With 15 Michigan Colleges, Universities To Train Automated Vehicle Talent

YPSILANTI TWP. - The American Center for Mobility will work with 15 colleges and universities across Michigan to create the Academic Consortium aimed at training next generation high-tech talent at its connected and automated vehicle technologies facility at the Willow Run airport.  ACM and the Academic Consortium will partner to create educational pathways to train

By |2017-10-22T15:49:27-04:00October 22nd, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, IoT|
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Mobility Startups Join U-M Incubator To Pilot Autonomous, Connected Vehicle Innovations

ANN ARBOR - Five companies from across the country will test and develop mobility solutions with University of Michigan students as a part of U-M's TechLab at Mcity. TechLab is managed by U-M's Center for Entrepreneurship, in partnership with Mcity, a public-private partnership led by U-M to accelerate advanced mobility vehicles and technologies. Unlike traditional

By |2017-10-12T20:11:07-04:00October 12th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, IoT|
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Steve Case Talks Hot Technology Trends In Michigan

ANN ARBOR - In part two of this interview with AOL Co-Founder Steve Case, who currently is on his Rise of the Rest roadshow in Ann Arbor, Case talks about hot technologies in Michigan, including what he calls the Internet of Everything, Connected Tech, and Autonomous Vehicles. He's interviewed by MITechNews.Com Editor and Publisher Mike

By |2017-10-15T13:48:25-04:00October 11th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, IoT|
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Self-Driving Trucks Will Need Mechanics, Technicians To Fix Them On The Road

LOUISVILLE - Self-driving vehicles are one of the latest and hottest trends in transportation leaving some business owners wondering what the future holds for all modes of transportation, including the trucking industry. In the past month, large deals have been struck between Waymo and Avis Budget Group for fleets of self-driving cars to be serviced

By |2017-10-06T12:16:23-04:00October 4th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, IoT|
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David Cole: Vehicle Hacking, Electric Cars, Trump Auto Policies

ROYAL OAK - The danger of hackable cars is only accelerating, auto guru David Cole explains in this segment of M2 TechCast. The auto industry as taken a more proactive approach by hiring former black hat hackers to test its autonomous vehicle cyber security vulnerabilities, and many were found. Measure and countermeasure. The hacking game

By |2017-10-06T12:22:01-04:00October 1st, 2017|Auto Tech, Autonomous Vehicles, IoT, M2 TechCast, Podcasts|
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Life On Planet M Focuses On Smart Transportation Technologies

DETROIT - The Intelligent Transportation Society of Michigan is partnering on Sept. 27 with NextEnergy to host “Life on Planet M” in Detroit. The daylong ITS Michigan annual conference will focus on “smart” transportation technologies, the related economy and the Intelligent Transportation Systems industry’s impact in Michigan. “ITS Michigan is thrilled to be hosting our

By |2017-09-21T17:45:13-04:00September 21st, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, STEAM|
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Intel Says It Has Been Working With Google Spin-Out Waymo On Autonomous Vehicles

SAN JOSE, Ca. - Chip maker Intel announced last week that is has partnered with Google spin-out Waymo since 2009. Intel has been supplying Xeon processors, Arria field programmable gate arrays - for machine vision - and gigabit ethernet solutions - to let all the various components talk to each other. "With three million miles

By |2017-09-19T19:47:52-04:00September 19th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles|
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US Transportation Secretary Chao Announces New Autonomous Vehicle Regulations

ANN ARBOR - University of Michigan's Mcity testing track was the site for U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao to announce new policy changes related to autonomous vehicles. State and university officials, along with automotive and manufacturing officials, gathered at UM's Mcity, 2901 Baxter Road, Sept. 12, to hear Chao talk about the updated policies. After being

By |2017-09-14T19:35:54-04:00September 14th, 2017|Auto Tech, Autonomous Vehicles|
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Honigman Launches Autonomous Vehicle Practice Group

DETROIT - Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP recently launched a formal practice group focusing on the rapidly growing autonomous vehicle industry. The firm, which maintains offices in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing, recently hired Steve Wernikoff to co-chair the practice with Tom Appledorn, a partner in the firm’s intellectual property group. Wernikoff formerly served

By |2017-09-07T12:17:10-04:00September 7th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles|
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State Launches Platform To Connect Global Automotive, Mobility Audiences At NAIAS

DETROIT - There will be a new wrinkle at the North American International Auto Show in January. A business-to-business and business-to-industry connection platform, called AutoMobili-D, will showcase connected and autonomous vehicle development in Michigan. The announcement came Thursday from the NAIAS and the Michigan Economic Development Corp. “Last year was a great inaugural event of

By |2017-08-25T04:00:26-04:00August 25th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, Featured|
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