The prediction: 2,000 driverless vehicles on Ann Arbor roads within eight years. Mark my words, this may be the most culturally revolutionary innovation since the Internet. And we're ground zero!
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"The university has already started to make this a reality. For the last two years, Sayer has been leading a project called Safety Pilot that includes 2,800 volunteers from Ann Arbor who agreed to outfit their own cars with wireless radio communications devices that can “talk” to traffic signals at 25 intersections. The cars can also receive warnings when they are going too fast around certain curves.
By the time the 18-month project, done in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Transportation, is finished in a few months, Sayer estimates it will have collected 12 billion wireless transmissions from the volunteer vehicles--each broadcasting 10 times a second."
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