Automakers are waking up to the realities of autonomous vehicles. In 2016, Ford said that it’d be mass producing vehicles capable of driving without the need for a steering wheel, pedals or a human — Level 5 Autonomous — by 2021. At a recent meeting at the Detroit Economics Club, CEO Jim Hackett walked that back, saying that while the 2021 goal was still in place, but the application would be narrow because of the complexities involved.
Anna Munie says the most impressive thing about the FIRST Robotics World Championship wasn’t a robot piloted by a goldfish. It was how prepared for the working world the competitors already were. Munie is a resource planning analyst for Consumers Energy and a FIRST volunteer.
Fatal car crashes are a rarity, but there are still 40,000 of them every year in the United States alone.
For all the talk of the future of mobility taking root in Detroit, 91 percent of trips are still completed in private cars.
This past weekend, The Michigan Science Center celebrated three years of The STEMinista Project, an initiative to grow interest in STEM fields among young girls.
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