3D Printed Self-Driving Electric Smart-Carts Are Now Being Developed

Updated 12.2.15, 4:50 PM EST by June Javelosa

University of Michigan researchers are developing high tech, 3D printed and automonous vehicles capable of shuttling co-eds around the campus. These low-speed electric “SmartCarts” will be tested at Mcity.
“Our focus is on transportation as a system,” said David Munson, the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. “Lots of people are talking about this as the way of the future, but we're aiming to build a test bed that will allow us to stop talking and start doing. If we can put such a system into service, it would be a huge research enabler on campus, and it would be one of only a few like it in the world.”

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