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Pumped to learn today that 
at the @michigandaily is 
bringing back the top tweets 
section tomorrow. Need to 
come up with something 
funny... #DeansLife

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If anyone was getting sick of walking 
to class in the snow rest assured that 
sometimes it rains fire and space 
rock here too #meteorl

Only #AnnArbor
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Who saw the meteor/shooting 
stat(s)/
or whatever you want to call 

it?!?

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Happy birthday to U-M alum 
@jamesearljones!

Arbor Brewing Co.
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New beer idea...it just came to us 
in a flash... Meteor Man - South 
East Michigan IPA (it’s a new 
style), bright colors, light aromas 
of rock on the nose, with a 
booming bitterness on the 
backend.

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also 
discussed 
the 
longer-

term benefits, such as the 
possibility of restructuring city 
development.

“Huge amounts of real estate 

are devoted to parking, and 
that’s basically because nobody 
wants 
to 
walk 
anywhere, 

so you build a lot of parking 
next to every possible place 
people want to go,” Olson said. 
“The problem is that then you 
provision the parking next to 
each building in accordance 
with that building’s sort of 
peak demand, which leads 
to city planners or property 
developers creating far more 
parking than is really necessary. 
If you can efficiently get people 

into a neighborhood and then 
transport them within that 
neighborhood without getting 
them to re-park, you can 
reclaim that land and turn it 
into more retail or more parks, 
and that’s really exciting to 
the city planners and property 
developers that we talk to.”

Aside from being located in 

Ann Arbor and employing many 
University of Michigan alumni, 
May Mobility has major ties 
to the University. Olsen said 
they have licensed technology 
with the University that has 
been imperative for getting the 
fleet of cars to work, as well as 
technology that helps ensure 
vehicle safety.

“Getting 
our 
cars 
on 

public roads within our first 
months of operation couldn’t 
have happened without this 
relationship with U-M,” Olson 

said in University press release.

Steve Vozar, May Mobility’s 

chief technology officer and one 
of the many University alums 
employed by the company, 
received his bachelor’s degree, 
master’s degree and Ph.D in 
Engineering at the University.

Vozar talked about how 

May Mobility differed from 
competitors because they were 
done 
waiting 
for 
someone 

else to produce a functioning 
driverless car company.

“To me it’s really exciting 

to be at the forefront of a 
transportation 
revolution,” 

Vozar said. “I’ve worked on 
other 
autonomous 
vehicle 

projects 
before, 
and 
the 

approach that we have with 
May Mobility is unique and 
very grounded in reality, and 
it’s an approach that will 

market sooner than we 
think other competitors 
will be able to do: the 
structure, 
environment, 

going block by block and 
making sure the system 
can handle everything we 
can throw at it. There’s a 
realism 
associated 
with 

that – we’re not waiting 
for the next breakthrough 
in AI, we want to generate 
business in the very near 
future, and this approach 
is how we’re going to do 
that.”

Vozar also spoke about 

how much he valued the 
company’s 
relationship 

with the University, both 
as an employee and as an 
alum.

“A lot of the connections 

that I made in grad school 
at U of M are now coming 
back to me at May,” Vozar 
said. “I may not have 
thought about this person 
in years, but they’ve got 
some company that they’re 
working with, or they have 
some candidates for me, or 
they have some cool new 

technology that we might want 
to integrate. So there’s sort of a 
diaspora into the leadership of 
big and small companies from 
Michigan 
Engineering, 
and 

it’s great to be able to use that 
network.”

Specifically, Vozar believes 

the benefits of having access 

to 
Mcity, 
the 
University’s 

testing facility for automated 
vehicles in simulated urban 
and 
suburban 
driving 

environments.

“Resources like Mcity are 

really crucial for us to do testing 
in a controlled environment, 
and to ramp up the testing and 
ensure our safety systems are 
functioning and fully vetted,” 
Vozar said. 

Erica Forrest, an engineering 

sophomore 
who 
recently 

became involved with Mcity, 
stressed the importance of 
autonomous vehicle research, 
and expressed how excited she 
was to be a part of this ongoing 
research.

“I think the cause is very 

important, 
just 
because 
of 

how frequently car accidents 
occur, and how dangerous 
driving can be,” Forrest said. 
“I’m a mechanical engineer, 
but I’m also interested in 
entrepreneurship. 
But 
I 

thought that this course was a 
great combination of the two. 
It’s so cool that we have this 
luxury right at our school, and 
I think being able to have this 
opportunity and work with 
professional companies and be 
a part of this exciting program 
is amazing.”

ALEXIS RANKIN/Daily

WOLVE RINE OF THE WE E K

Every Thursday, The Michigan 
Daily will feature a member of 
the campus community. This 
week we asked: What is your 
favorite memory here? 

“One of my favorite 
moments is probably 
my first day working at 
the Michigan Theater. 
I used to work at 
Quality16 but this has 
been much more fun 
and I see more students. 
I like movies a lot too, so 
I like being around that.”

Engineering sophomore Ian Bell

MOBILITY
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To me it’s really 

exciting to be at 

the forefront

