Last week, the American Center for Mobility—a test facility for automated driving located on 500 acres in Ypsilanti Twsp., Michigan, that includes a 2.5-mile highway loop, a 700-foot curved tunnel, two double overpasses, intersections and roundabouts—opened, with Visteon Corp. being the first company to conduct testing. One of the reasons why the ACM is useful for the development of autonomous vehicle technology is because as Visteon engineers experienced during their tests of their DriveCore platform, it snows in Michigan. After all, not all autonomous driving is going to occur in places like Silicon Valley or greater Phoenix.