Ford has started testing its self-driving cars in a 32-acre fake city

Whereas Google had to jump through a bunch of regulatory hoops in order to test out its self-driving cars on public roads, the Michigan Department of Transportation, the University of Michigan, and a consortium of fifteen automakers decided to just build a fake city. Known as MCity, this 32-acre part of Ann Arbor has been designed to offer automakers a safe area to test their self-driving technology without having to worry about civilians, and Ford is going to be the first to use it.