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When Mcity—the world’s first controlled environment designed to test the potential of connected and automated vehicles—opened in July 2015, people from all over the world came to Ann Arbor to see what could eventually lead to mass-market driverless cars.
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After a local soybean farmer discovered a rare mammoth skeleton on his farm, U-M paleontology professor, Daniel Fisher, and his team of students were given one day to dig out as much as possible.