ANN ARBOR — Connected cruise control uses vehicle-to-vehicle communication to let automated vehicles respond to multiple cars at a time in an effort to save energy and improve safety. University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated its effectiveness on public roads, even when just one automated vehicle is moving among human-driven cars. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication, or V2V,
ANN ARBOR - Consumers were a bit less optimistic in July than one month or one year ago, although consumer confidence remains at a reasonably high level, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. The recent decline was due to rising concerns about prospects for the economy that were mainly expressed by upper
MINNEAPOLIS - A recent study sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation has left the wrong impression on what could happen on our Great Lakes. This study, conducted by the University of Michigan on behalf of the NWF, used a computer model to predict the environmental impacts of a worst-case oil spill by Line 5 in
ANN ARBOR - More than 700 miles of shoreline in lakes Huron and Michigan are potentially vulnerable to oil spills if a 63-year old pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac ruptures, according to a new University of Michigan computer-modeling study released Thursday. Enbridge Line 5 pipeline moves up to 20 million gallons of light crude
ANN ARBOR - Laws that make it more difficult for people to register and vote, are instead angering the very minority voters they are intended to disenfranchise, mobilizing many more to go to the polls and cast their ballot, contends a new study from the University of Michigan. This effect may explain why, to date,
ANN ARBOR - While more and more teens and twentysomethings are forgoing driver's licenses, the most recent trend holds true for pretty much all age groups, say University of Michigan researchers. In a new report examining changes in driver licensure in the U.S. from 1983 to 2014, Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle of the U-M
