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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.

The Amazing Growth Of Crossovers, GM Stock Price, Autonomous Vehicle Hype

ROYAL OAK - The amazing shift in the American market from passenger cars to the crossover vehicles - today’s station wagon - is explained by auto guru David Cole. He also updates the listening audience on autonomous vehicle development and the five levels - where you can go to sleep in the back seat and

By |2017-10-24T21:27:48-04:00October 24th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, M2 TechCast, Podcasts|
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Hyundai America Technical Center invests $5M in American Center for Mobility

YPSILANTI TWP. — Officials of the Hyundai America Technical Center Inc. announced Tuesday that the company has a new long-term partnership with the American Center for Mobility to support the advancement of connected and automated vehicle technology. As one of ACM’s Founder-level sponsors, HATCI will contribute $5 million to support the creation of a collaborative

By |2017-10-24T19:29:49-04:00October 24th, 2017|Autonomous Vehicles, ESD|
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Survey: Tooling Industry Experienced Strong Third Quarter – Capacity Utilization High

SOUTHFIELD – A new survey shows that the tooling industry experienced a strong third quarter, with die shops in particular experiencing an 88 percent spike in capacity utilization and mod shops reaching 81 percent capacity. Shops with revenue ranges of $10-million to $20-million are experiencing peak capacity utilization rates of 87 percent. The results come

By |2017-10-22T16:58:26-04:00October 22nd, 2017|Auto Tech, Autonomous Vehicles|
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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, STEM|
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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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