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Michigan Wants To Build The World’s Mobility Capital. Here’s Why It Matters

Michigan Wants To Build The World’s Mobility Capital. Here’s Why It Matters

LANSING - Nearly 500,000 Michiganders already work in what state officials define as the mobility economy—a fast-growing sector that reaches far beyond the automobile industry to include artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, drones, robotics, maritime technologies, aerospace, defense and advanced manufacturing. The sector already employs about 495,600 people, representing roughly 13 percent of Michigan's workforce, and

By Mike Brennan|2026-07-15T10:14:24-04:00July 15th, 2026|Government/Politics, Mobile MI, Mobility, Politics, Politics/Government|

Michigan’s Long Road to Driverless Cars — And Why Musk’s Latest Claim Doesn’t Change The Timeline

Michigan’s Long Road to Driverless Cars — And Why Musk’s Latest Claim Doesn’t Change The Timeline

DETROIT -If self driving cars were judged by promises alone, Michigan highways would have been filled with autonomous vehicles years ago. Instead, the state that built the modern auto industry has spent more than a decade quietly stress-testing a harder truth: getting a car to drive itself reliably, everywhere, and in all conditions is far

By Staff Writer|2026-01-27T17:41:26-05:00January 25th, 2026|Auto Tech, ESD, Featured|

Mcity Unveils Digital Twin, Making Physical AV Testing Available Free In The Virtual World

Mcity Unveils Digital Twin, Making Physical AV Testing Available Free In The Virtual World

ANN ARBOR—The first open-source digital twin of the Mcity Test Facility—the University of Michigan's test center for connected and autonomous vehicles and technologies—is now available to the public, giving researchers around the world a new free tool. A digital twin is a virtual representation of a physical environment that also exchanges data with that environment,

By Staff Writer|2024-12-17T15:07:10-05:00December 17th, 2024|Artificial Intelligence, Auto Tech|

With AV Challenge, Engineers Can Put Their Decision-Making Algorithms To The Test

With AV Challenge, Engineers Can Put Their Decision-Making Algorithms To The Test

ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan has issued a challenge to the developers of autonomous vehicle technologies: show us what you've got. The Mcity AV Challenge will pit researchers in academia and industry against each other, measuring the performance of their decision-making modules in a world-leading, realistic simulated environment. "What's unique about the Mcity AV Challenge

By Staff Writer|2024-04-24T14:43:32-04:00April 23rd, 2024|ESD|

Chinese LiDAR Developer RoboSense Joins MCity To Help Drive Future Of Mobility

Chinese LiDAR Developer RoboSense Joins MCity To Help Drive Future Of Mobility

ANN ARBOR–Officials at the Chinese LiDAR (lasar radar) developer RoboSense (2498.HK) announced its membership in Mcity, a public-private mobility research center led by the University of Michigan. By joining Mcity, RoboSense aligns itself with a diverse community of Mcity industry members and government partners, including Toyota, Ford, Honda, Denso, the United States Department of Transportation, and the Michigan Department

By Matt Roush|2024-01-31T12:12:21-05:00January 31st, 2024|Mobile MI, Mobility|

May Mobility Safety Testing Autonomous Vehicle At U-M’s Mcity R&D Facility

May Mobility Safety Testing Autonomous Vehicle At U-M’s Mcity R&D Facility

ANN ARBOR—Testing of a new autonomous shuttle is underway at the University of Michigan’s Mcity Test Facility to ensure the technology is ready to safely serve older adults and people with disabilities in the City of Detroit. Earlier this month, U-M researchers kicked off several months of testing with an autonomous vehicle provided by May Mobility,

By Matt Roush|2023-12-09T15:16:32-05:00December 9th, 2023|Auto Tech, ESD|

MCity To Invest $5.1 Million To Enable Remote Autonomous Vehicle Testing

MCity To Invest $5.1 Million To Enable Remote Autonomous Vehicle Testing

ANN ARBOR—Mcity, which operates the world's first purpose-built test environment for connected and autonomous vehicles, will invest $5.1 million from the National Science Foundation to supercharge the facility's evolution into a test track unlike any other. By enhancing its physical testing environment, adding virtual reality software and generating real-world datasets, Mcity can provide tailor-made simulation

By Staff Writer|2022-09-20T10:55:41-04:00September 20th, 2022|Auto Tech, ESD|

A2GO Autonomous Vehicle Shuttle Service Available In Ann Arbor In October

ANN ARBOR - A new autonomous vehicle shuttle service is coming to Ann Arbor in October courtesy A2GO, a joint venture with Ann Arbor SPARK, May Mobility and MCity. The new shuttle service comes from a grant through the mobility efforts of the state of Michigan. Additional partners on A2GO include !important Safety Technologies, 4M, Office of Future Mobility

By Staff Writer|2021-05-24T09:38:04-04:00May 24th, 2021|Mobile MI, Mobility, STEM|

Foresight, UM Partner On Vision Systems For Autonomous Vehicles

ANN ARBOR—Foresight Autonomous Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: FRSX), the automotive vision systems developer based in Ness Ziona, Israel, announced today that it would join the University of Michigan’s TechLab at Mcity 2021 startup cohort, managed by the UM Center for Entrepreneurship, to further develop its automotive vision system designed for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and autonomous

By Matt Roush|2020-12-18T17:08:42-05:00December 18th, 2020|Auto Tech|

Mcity Driverless Shuttle Report: 86 Percent of Riders Trusted Technology

Mcity Driverless Shuttle Report: 86 Percent of Riders Trusted Technology

ANN ARBOR — Results of Mcity's consumer survey, conducted in partnership with global market research firm J.D. Power, showed that 86 percent of riders said they trusted the technology after riding in it, as did 66 percent of nonriders surveyed. U-M donated one of two shuttles used for the project to The Henry Ford in

By Staff Writer|2020-10-18T15:39:07-04:00October 18th, 2020|Auto Tech|