Contractors work on the construction site of the American Mobility Center (ACM) in Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. Representative Debbie Dingel, a Democrat from Michigan, and Representative Bob Latta, a Republican from Ohio, visited the ACM to meet with experts in the autonomous vehicles industry as the two work together to advance bipartisan self-driving vehicle legislation through the House floor. Photographer: Sean Proctor/Bloomberg
Self-driving cars will begin taking test laps this December on the site of a famous World War II airplane factory in Michigan where Rosie the Riveter helped produce a shiny B-24 Liberator bomber every hour more than seven decades ago.
Driverless cars – some without steering wheels, accelerators or brake pedals – will race at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour around a 2.5-mile loop that includes a triple-decker overpass, a 700-foot tunnel and a decommissioned federal highway. The test track, known as the American Centre for Mobility, is under construction on the grounds of the former Willow Run factory that was a critical cog in Detroit’s famed Arsenal of Democracy during World War II.
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