Mcity, as the facility is known, was built by the University of Michigan as a testing ground for automakers, including Ford, which has been experimenting with self-driving cars here for about two years
Mcity, as the facility is known, was built by the University of
Michigan as a testing ground for automakers, including Ford, which
has been experimenting with self-driving cars here for about two
years. I parked my rental and climbed into the back of a white Ford
Fusion with four spinning Lidar sensors on the roof, each roughly
the size of a water glass, and a rack of high-performance computers
in the trunk. Next to me sat Randy Visintainer, Ford’s director of
autonomous vehicle development. Jakob Hoellerbauer, a young Ford
engineer, took the driver’s seat. Wayne Williams, a Ford research
scientist, sat beside him in the passenger seat typing on a laptop.
We put on our seatbelts, and Hoellerbauer hit the ignition and
pulled into the road. A beep came from the dashboard, indicating
that the car was ready to engage self-driving mode. Hoellerbauer
pushed a button on the steering wheel and took his hands away.
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