Michigan's partners include Ford and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, a company that Alphabet has invested in. "We believe this is a transformative project for Michigan, and globally," Michigan chief mobility officer Trevor Pawl told CNN Business. He noted there have been almost 10,000 fatal car crashes in Michigan in the last decade, adding that he expected self-driving vehicles to improve safety. In the next two years, a one-mile test stretch of modified road would be built at the American Center for Mobility, an organization based outside Ann Arbor that tests self-driving vehicles. Pawl said Michigan is being careful about the employment impacts of self-driving vehicles.

Source: CNN August 13, 2020 20:48 UTC