Jul 16, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Climate, Detroit, Electric Vehicles
CARS HAVE NOT been good for the environment, to put it lightly. Transportation accounts for 28 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions, and light-duty vehicles for more than half of those. Someday, self-driving cars will appear widely in the US....
Jul 16, 2020 | Detroit, Robots
Detroit has long been known as the Motor City. Maybe “Michigan: the Robot State” will catch on? Officials here are touting a rise in robotics as efforts continue with using advanced machines to keep people safe from the coronavirus … and transitioning to the...
Jul 9, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Government, Mobility
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer formalized the launch of an Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) last week to support transportation innovation efforts already underway in cities across the state. Chief Mobility Officer Trevor Pawl told Smart...
Jun 25, 2020 | Car Sharing, Detroit, Featured, Safety
The latest challenge for the autonomous vehicle industry: How to assure passengers that the car they are getting in is virus free, even if it doesn’t have a driver. Widespread use of autonomous vehicles already had been delayed by a March 2018 fatal crash...
Jun 25, 2020 | 5G, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
Ford Motor Co has signed a deal with Vodafone Group Plc to install a private 5G network at the car maker’s electric-vehicle (EV) battery facility in UK’s Essex, the companies said in a joint statement on Thursday. The project is part of a 65-million-pound...
Jun 18, 2020 | Autonomous Vehicles, Detroit, Featured
Ford’s new hands-free-driving product will be available on its Mustang Mach-E electric car. The Dearborn, Mich., auto giant said in a news release its new Ford Co-Pilot360 Technology will open up “hands-free driving on more than 100,000 miles of divided...
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