Automated vehicle industry activities in Michigan
Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT), May 1, 2017
In 2013, Michigan became the fourth US state to specifically regulate the testing of automated (self-driving) vehicles. Public Acts 231 and 251 of 2013 updated Michigan’s legal code to facilitate manufacturers, suppliers, and upfitters of automated vehicle technology to test prototype automated driving systems on public roads when registered with a special license plate (an ‘Mplate’). Michigan’s legal code was further revised with the adoption of Public Acts 332, 333, 334, and 335 (of 2016). The most impactful of these, PA 332 created a framework by which to deploy an “on-demand motor vehicle network.”