U-M aims for driverless car network by 2021
The end is nigh, the end is nigh! Drverless cars? What next, dogs and cats sleeping together? Seriously, this Concentrate editor predicts that technologies like this will have almost as big an impact on the way we live as the Internet. Excerpt: "By 2021, Ann Arbor could become the first American city with a shared fleet of networked, driverless vehicles. That's the goal of the Mobility Transformation Center, a cross-campus University of Michigan initiative that also involves government and industry representatives." Read and watch the rest here.This story is getting a lot of play. Check out articles here and here.
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