Combining real and virtual worlds improves driverless vehicle testing
...beyond the price of physical vehicles — to almost zero, according to a new white paper published by Mcity. Augment reality combines the real world with a virtual world to...
First round winners named in NSF-supported competition to win free use of Mcity remote testing capabilities
We are pleased to announce the first round of winners who will gain access to Mcity 2.0 remote testing capabilities through a competition supported by the National Science Foundation. A...
Simulated terrible drivers cut the time and cost of AV testing by a factor of one thousand
...“Teaching computers how to replace us in this task has proven to be quite complicated.” Greg McGuire, managing director, Mcity Testing was conducted at Mcity’s test facility in Ann Arbor,...
Driverless shuttle service coming to U-M’s North Campus
...and staff,” said NAVYA President and CEO Christophe Sapet. NAVYA is an affiliate member of Mcity.The first of NAVYA’s ARMA vehicles to operate in North America is based at Mcity,...
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Wonder what Mcity’s been working on? Here’s a progress report
...connected and automated vehicles. Read our 2017-2018 progress report to the community and learn more about Mcity’s achievements, challenges, and outlook for the future of mobility. Mcity Progress Report 2017–2018...
Mcity Director Henry Liu appointed to new named professorship
Mcity Director Henry Liu, also a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has been appointed the Bruce D. Greenshields Collegiate Professor of Engineering. His term began September 1, 2023, and...
Designing AVs to be safe, courteous starts with understanding how people think when they’re behind the wheel
READ THE WHITE PAPER Mcity and Toyota team up to study how data collected from real-world driving could help AVs learn to seamlessly share the road with human drivers Automated...
$9.95 million to create “smart intersections” across city of Ann Arbor
...the U-M-led Ann Arbor Connected Vehicle Test Environment and its predecessor Safety Pilot Model Deployment, vehicles across the city have been communicating with one another and infrastructure since 2012. At...
“Smart cities” must balance need for data with protecting privacy. But how? New white paper examines what success requires
...smart phones to control when the lights go on at home, or push a button to tell our SUV to park itself. Local governments, often in partnership with private enterprise,...
U-M part of group awarded $7.5 million federal mobility grant
...of self-driving technologies at U-M’s Mcity Test Facility, the American Center for Mobility (ACM) in Ypsilanti, and in the City of Detroit. The grant was awarded to the Michigan Mobility...
$15 million USDOT grant bolsters regional research hub led by U-M
...interact with real vehicles inside the adjacent Mcity Test Facility. Liu is also a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan and the director of Mcity....