The overall monitoring screen in the Michigan Traffic Lab at the University of MIchigan Transportation Research Institute. The upper right shows a live video stream from the test vehicle while the left pane shows virtual cars in blue and the test car in red.
All things considered, there have been remarkably few accidents so far as a result of real-world testing of automated vehicles. However, those vehicles have all had safety drivers and engineers on board to monitor the situations and take over when there is any doubt about the vehicle’s ability to handle things. Unfortunately, this sort of testing isn’t particularly suitable for evaluating a lot dangerous edge cases such as a vehicle running a red light or making a dangerous left turn. That’s where the University of Michigan has applied augmented reality at the Mcity test facility in Ann Arbor, Mich.
Mcity opened in June 2015 as a public private partnership between the University and a group of automakers, suppliers and other companies including insurers. The 37-acre test track on the university’s research campus on the northeast side of the city has a variety of road types and replicas of real-world environments for testing connected and automated vehicles.
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Source: Forbes