A mother pushing a baby carriage jaywalks across a busy city street. Cutting between two parked cars and partially obscured by a bus, she edges her stroller into traffic before freezing as a speeding car bears down on her. Will the car stop in time? Or will it mow down mother and child? It doesn't really matter: The mom is a robot, and the car is a driverless vehicle cruising down a fake street in a mock town.
Welcome to M City, a soon-to-open 23-acre mini-metropolis at the University of Michigan, where automakers can test autonomous cars to prepare for the driverless future expected within a decade. Seeking to replicate a modern city's chaos — traffic jams, unpredictable pedestrians, weaving cyclists — M City starts running on July 20 and has carmakers and tech companies queuing up to conduct research on its roads. Read more...
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