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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.”
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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