ANN ARBOR - Take that Silicon Valley. The University of Michigan announced this week that three West Coast driverless vehicle start-ups will join TechLab at the 34-acre Mcity complex in north Ann Arbor where dozens of companies are developing technology they hope will lead to fully autonomous vehicles. The new recruits are Zendrive, PolySync and
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship in partnership with the U-M Mobility Transformation Center is launching the pilot of TechLab at Mcity, a new opportunity for collaboration among university research, advanced transportation startups and student innovators. TechLab is designed to create unique educational opportunities and accelerate the success of participating companies.
ANN ARBOR - The heart of the world's autonomous- and connected-car research isn't in Silicon Valley, it's at a University of Michigan research facility. Roadshow CNET.Com's new video series, features Driving Detroit - an in-depth look at this groundbreaking future-mobility cityscape at MCity. Exciting new mobility and transportation startups are appearing every day, and transformed, re-energized
ANN ARBOR - The U-M Office of Research announced on January 11 that James R. Sayer has been appointed Director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the developer of the Mcity, the U-M’s 32 acre autonomous driving experiment range on north campus. Carol Flannagan, who has served as Interim Director of UMTRI during
ANN ARBOR - Ford ‘invented’ the mass market car in the shape of its 1908 Model T and now its hoping to lead the charge into creating volume selling autonomous vehicles. That’s why it became the first carmaker to test autonomous vehicles at Mcity – the 32-acre simulated urban environment at the University of Michigan.
ANN ARBOR - The University of Michigan's Mcity, billed as the world's first controlled environment designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicles technologies, officially opened July 20 - coincidentally the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing. Just as the Apollo mission kicked off a new age of scientific discovery, speakers at
