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With millions expected to hit the roads this week for Thanksgiving, safety is top of mind for drivers everywhere. But what about the future of travel where #autonomousVehicles are the norm? Last month, we convened a panel at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) Symposium which asked how safe is safe enough when it comes to AVs. Thank you to our moderator, Greg McGuire as well as our panelists Amy Chu (Uber), Cooper L. (Consumer Reports), Brian Simmons (MITRE), Greg Stevens (Mcity), Jean Paul Velez (San Francisco County Transportation Authority), and Jon Wey (State Farm). Check out the exciting discussion before you head out the door 👇 📺 Watch AVs: How Safe Is Safe Enough?: https://lnkd.in/gPW_9xA9

Did you know that Mcity member Parallel Domain has completed a digital replica of the Test Facility? This high-fidelity simulation environment allows Mcity members and researchers to run perception, planning, prediction, and control tests with realism nearly indistinguishable from the physical track. Request access to the Mcity Replica below 👇 📥 Request access: https://myumi.ch/kP6GG

Throwback to hosting the Michigan Drone Association (MDA) last month for their Public Safety Demo Day! It was a pleasure to welcome the top first responders from the State of Michigan and drone vendors to conduct a live HAZMAT demonstration. Thank you to Jim Lollar, Russell Girbach, MS, and Chris Proudlock for organizing! 🚁 Learn more about M-air, the newly established public-private partnership: https://myumi.ch/pVEND

We just wrapped up a great week at 𝐒𝐀𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐒 (𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦), where we shared the latest on 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐒𝐢𝐦 and had a lot of good conversations across the AV space. I also ended up riding Waymo many times — a good reminder of how far the tech has come, and how far we still have to go to make AVs deploy everywhere. One thing that really stood out is 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐩 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐕 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐞 — cities working on permitting, regulators asking for interpretable safety evidence, insurers needing a basis for pricing, and the public who just want to understand why this is safe. And this isn’t just between different companies; it happens even within the same company. Waymo in SF and Waymo in Tokyo basically have to rebuild the safety story from scratch for a new set of stakeholders. We think 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 is one of the most practical ways to bridge that gap — when AVs can be tested in virtual cities that truly behave like the real world, including rare corner cases, safety becomes something you can demonstrate proactively. That’s exactly why we’re building and open-sourcing TeraSim World: a transparent, reproducible platform that gives developers, OEMs, cities, regulators, insurers, and researchers a shared safety language. Huge thanks to Parallel Domain, Bot Auto, and Mcity for collaborating with us, and thanks to everyone who stopped by at ATS. Lots of great discussions, and we learned a lot. More updates soon — and if you want to try or contribute to TeraSim, the open-source repo is here: https://lnkd.in/emcHTNBU

🚨 Last Chance to join the Mcity Team! 🚨 Join the team shaping the future of connected and automated vehicle technologies. We're #hiring for a Research Assistant intern who is master's-level and enrolled in an engineering degree (or a closely related field). Interns may assist in developing #digitalTwin environments, integrating vehicle sensors and data pipelines, or training #AI and #machineLearning models for perception and decision-making tasks. The experience emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and technical growth, allowing Interns to engage deeply with the technologies driving autonomous and connected mobility while contributing to impactful research and real-world testing. 📥 Apply here before the posting closes this week: https://myumi.ch/xwJ79

📣 Calling all University of Michigan College of Engineering #students! 📣 Join the team shaping the future of connected and automated vehicle technologies at Mcity, the University of Michigan’s world-leading test facility for smart transportation. Mcity is #hiring for a Research Assistant intern. We're looking for individuals who are master's-level and enrolled in an engineering degree (or a closely related field). Interns may assist in developing digital-twin environments, integrating vehicle sensors and data pipelines, or training AI and machine learning models for perception and decision-making tasks. The experience emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and technical growth, allowing Interns to engage deeply with the technologies driving autonomous and connected mobility while contributing to impactful research and real-world testing. 📥 Apply here before the posting closes next week: https://myumi.ch/xwJ79

Thank you to the Mechanical Engineering Department - University of Michigan for visiting Mcity for your Modeling, Analysis, and Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicles course! It was amazing to watch the students engage with Miki Banu, Tim Grewe, and Jinming Liu as they operated these vehicles on our Test Facility. 🔎 Learn more about the Mcity Test Facility's capabilities: https://myumi.ch/1bGgg

One month ago, the Mcity engineering team participated in a research demonstration day in conjunction with the 2025 University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) Symposium. We are pleased to announce that all of the demonstrations can now be viewed on our YouTube channel! You'll learn about: 🥽 Human decision-making and driver handoff in mixed reality 🚗 Lifting the "Curse of Rarity" by leveraging #artificialIntelligence 🚦 Cooperative Autonomy in Action within the Mcity 2.0 platform 💻 Watch the Mcity Demo Day here: https://lnkd.in/gtNfjdYH

🎉 Exciting news from the Mcity team! 🎉 The Transportation Insecurity Project, led by our Associate Director of Social Science Research, Alex Murphy, has expanded to two new states, including Nevada and Vermont. Through its deployment, states will have a better understanding of the mobility needs of their residents. 🔎 Learn more about the Transportation Insecurity Project: https://myumi.ch/e3d1Q

🚗 Did you miss that we're #hiring? 📣 Mcity is hiring a Business Partnership Manager to lead all strategic engagements in our pursuit to introduce advanced mobility technologies to society in a thoughtful and beneficial way. In this role, you'll: 🤝 Recruit and onboard new industry members for Mcity and M-air 🏛️ Form and oversee partnerships with government, non-profits, and academic groups ✍ Work with the Managing Director (Greg McGuire) to ensure the overall development and engagement strategies that support the needs of the center 📥 Apply here: https://myumi.ch/8qjjg