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Driverless car test site gets industry partners

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors, Ford and Toyota are joining the University of Michigan in establishing a testing site for driverless cars that will simulate a cityscape, and will work with the school to help make such vehicles commercially viable, officials announced Tuesday.

The Michigan Mobility Transformation Center’s 32-acre testing site near the Ann Arbor school’s North Campus is scheduled to be completed this fall. The university’s regents last year approved the $6.5 million for the project. Groundbreaking took place Tuesday.

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