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U. Michigan Opens a Test City For Driverless Cars
An anonymous reader writes: The University of Michigan has opened Mcity, the world's first controlled environment specifically designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicle technologies that will lead the way to mass-market driverless cars. Mcity is a 32-acre simulated urban and suburban environment that includes a network of roads with intersections, traffic signs and signals, streetlights, building facades, sidewalks and construction obstacles. The types of technologies that will be tested at the facility include connected technologies – vehicles talking to other vehicles or to the infrastructure, commonly known as V2V or V2I – and various levels of automation all the way up to fully autonomous, or driverless vehicles.
More than that ... they need to recruit some of the absolutely terrible drivers we've all seen, and send them into the mix to do their usual random shit.
Because I think it will demonstrate how this stuff will totally fall apart when non-connected vehicles are in the mix, and highlight that there is no way in hell the entire road infrastructure and all cars are going to be updated for this connected stuff.
This stuff all seems to assume the world will change to suit it and we'll spend huge sums of money to make the infrastructure work.
And that's simply not true.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Just use Detroit: it's full of real roads and building, full of perils, and many parts of the city are virtually devoid of people.
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