UMTRI in the archive

The archive holds 9 reports filed under UMTRI, spanning 2014–2016. The earliest is “6 Game-Changing Driverless Cars, With Videos”; the most recent is “Keep it Away: Drivers Don’t Want Self-Driving Cars”. Original reporting came via Burney Simpson, John Estrada, Property Casualty 360.

This period matters for a specific reason: it is when the industry's assumptions were set. Testing permits were first issued, the acquisitions that consolidated the perception layer closed, the regulatory frameworks still in force were drafted, and a great many confident deployment dates were published. Almost all of those dates passed without incident, which makes the contemporaneous record more useful now than it was at the time — it can be read against what actually happened.

Coverage under UMTRI overlaps most often with Michigan, GM, Safety and Automated Vehicle, which is a reasonable map of where the topic sat in the industry's attention.

For what the listed companies in this field did over the same period, the D20 index roster tracks the corporate side. For what has since been deployed on public roads, the deployment tracker records operators, cities and dates, and the research library holds the papers this reporting drew on.