In addition, the track should give researchers a place to test autonomous vehicles in rain or snow without endangering other drivers. The facility, which lies adjacent to the University of Michigan, was built to train self-driving cars within the current race to develop the ultimate driverless auto of the future.
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Many features of urban driving have been built in the test city, including intersections, a railroad crossing, two roundabouts, brick and gravel roads and parking spaces. Other details like faded lane markings and road signs covered by graffiti will help research simulate environments where autonomous cars face the most challenges, U-M explained.
Michigan Democratic Senator Gary Peters, a member of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, made his remarks following the opening of the University of Michigan’s Mcity track on Monday.
Sweatman said driverless technology is a “game changer for safety, for efficiency, for energy, and for accessibility”. “We expect to file a response to the lawsuit in accordance with the deadline established by the Court of Claims”. “We designed M City to hyper-accelerate the process”. This is the centre of the (automated driving technology) universe. But where will all of the testing be done?
“In conditions of the weird stuff, we can pack it all in in a quite dense way”, he reported. “But when it comes to things like regulatory approaches and legal approaches, that’s where you really want to come together and collaborate”.
With high profile companies, such as Google and numerous major automakers beginning to test autonomous vehicles, the once sci-fi fantasy could quickly become a reality.
M City represents an alternative to that.
Road-testing at Mcity, as the test city is called had been ongoing for months.
Mcity is just one part of a much larger project that MTC and its partner organizations are establishing in an effort to get a whole fleet of connected and driverless cars on the road in Ann Arbor by 2021. State Farm Automobile Insurance Co.is also behind the center, an indication that insurers are eager to understand liability issues related to autonomous vehicles. While on the freeway in California, he said, “another vehicle crossed into our lane”, and the Google vehicle responded “seamlessly” while avoiding a collision.
“The Google folks are kind of strutting their stuff”, Peters said. “We hope we’re not actually going to hit them too often”.
Sweatman believes that the type of automotive technology being tested will have a positive benefit. We’re not going to let Silicon Valley take this technology away. General Motors (GM), Ford Motor Co. They are paying $1 million over three years to gain top priority, Sweatman said.
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“There are 33,000 American motorists that lost their lives previous year on highways”, Peter said.
