"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian)
10/10/2014 at 17:14 • Filed to: autonomous, michigan, driverless
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"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian)
10/10/2014 at 17:14 • Filed to: autonomous, michigan, driverless | 0
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I found !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , I don't know how trustworthy a video game/movie/tv website is for a source, though. If you're interested more, it'll probably be on the FP soon... I searched for it and couldn't find it, so I'm posting it here.
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Here's the news:
Michigan's Department of Transportation, the University of Michigan, and 13 companies are pitching in on the $6.5 million, 30-acre testing ground.
Self-driving cars are the way of the future, no bones about it. From !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on driverless cars, to !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , soon you'll be sitting in your ride (hopefully not asleep) as it drives you to work.
And Michigan seems to agree — an important factor, since the state is home to America's three major auto manufacturers. The Wolverine State is set to help push self-driving car tech forward, as its Department of Transportation embarks on a $6.5 million, 30-acre testing facility.
What's being constructed is essentially a ghost town, set on the north edge of Ann Arbor's University of Michigan flagship campus. The test town is being built by the Michigan DoT, the aforementioned university's !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , and 13 private-sector companies. Some of the names involved include Bosch, Econolite, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, and Xerox. Ford, GM, and Toyota are well known, for sure, while Bosch is a major car part manufacturer, and Econolite builds traffic control equipment. Xerox makes photocopiers...so there's that ( !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ). [ Update: The full list of non-government entities involved: Delphi, Denso, Econolite, Ford, GM, Honda, Iteris, Nissan, Bosch, State Farm, Toyota, Verizon, Xerox]
While the test range will include everything you would expect in a driving test environment (streets, traffic lights, turns, etc.) the facility will be largely automated. This means robotic construction crews, pedestrians popping out from behind parked cars, and other average day road hazards.
The primary technology set to be tested on the range will be car-to-car communication, which will eventually allow cars to maintain distance between one another, even if the make and model differs.
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CAR_IS_MI
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
10/10/2014 at 17:46 |
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So they're going to buy Detriot?
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Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
> CAR_IS_MI
10/10/2014 at 18:03 |
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I guess... But wouldn't that cost like... I dunno, 20 bucks?
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CAR_IS_MI
> Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
10/10/2014 at 18:07 |
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Back taxes on the $20....