DETROIT - Tesla updated its website to announce that Model 3 and Model Y cars built for North America and shipping this month will no longer be equipped with radar. On Tesla’s earnings call last month, CEO Elon Musk called radar one of the last “crutches” the EV maker wants to do away with in
MACKINAC ISLAND – Gov. Rick Snyder this week announced an $8 Million Michigan Mobility Challenge grant initiative to address core mobility gaps for seniors, persons with disabilities and veterans across the state. Michigan is the international hub of automotive innovation and the Mobility Challenge leverages this ecosystem to ensure everyone in the state has access
ANN ARBOR - Sound waves could be used to hack into critical sensors in a broad array of technologies including smartphones, automobiles, medical devices and the Internet of Things, University of Michigan research shows. The new work calls into question the longstanding computer science tenet that software can automatically trust hardware sensors, which feed autonomous
EAST LANSING - At Michigan State University, researchers are involved in the work that will someday make self-driving vehicles not just a reality, but commonplace. Working as part of a project known as CANVAS – Connected and Autonomous Networked Vehicles for Active Safety – the scientists are focusing much of their energy on key areas,
EAST LANSING - Some engineering professors had an idea to monitor bridges with sensors powered with the vibrations generated by traffic. Think self-winding watch. And they plan to use the Mackinac Bridge test the science. Those professors, including one at Michigan State University, think they have mastered the technology. Bob Sweeney and the Mackinac Bridge
ANN ARBOR - A joint project of the University of Michigan School of Education and College of Engineering to bring sensor technology to Detroit communities has won $138,339 in the 2016 Knight Cities Challenge. The program will engage Detroit youth in grades 8-12 as the future leaders, scientists and planners of the city. An interdisciplinary
