Montana, Mississippi and North Dakota have the highest fatality rates from road crashes per 100,000 people, researchers found.
Daily commuting and work related traveling has increased slightly while total travel time per person has decreased over the past 11 years, according to a study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute.
Here's an NPR report on MCity, a 32-acre testing ground for driverless cars. The simulated city, located at the University of Michigan, recently held an open house.
Nokia business unit Here has begun offering its high-definition mapping data to automotive suppliers in parts of the U.S., France, and Germany to advance automated driving technology, according to the company.
The University of Michigan has opened Mcity, a 32-acre simulated town to allow automakers to test autonomous vehicles.
All headlights in the U.S. auto market must still comply with an old rule requiring lights to have both low and high beams – a regulatory roadblock for some adaptive headlight systems.
Emergency response agencies can use the additional information to fine-tune how they dispatch first responders to the scene of a crash.
The University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute is busy examining the human factor in automated driving, including how drivers respond when vehicle control is transferred back to them.
Auto transportation has begun to undergo transformative changes because of advances in connected-vehicle technologies. Development of these technologies has the potential to save tens of thousands of lives each year in the U.S., and the University of Michigan campus will soon serve as a major test bed for this groundbreaking work. M City is due for completion in late spring. For the full story about the U-M testing facility, called M City, click here.
The University of Michigan campus will soon be home to a 32-acre testing facility for connected and automated vehicle technologies.
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