As the transportation industry drives further toward autonomous and electrification, educational curriculums must advance to properly train those that will be designing, building, and servicing the future of mobility.

ComCap, annual conference on using community capital to promote shared prosperity, runs from June 11-13 at the College for Creative Studies' A. Alfred Taubman Center. The conference will feature more than 50 speakers, including Detroiters Devita Davison, Kwaku Osei, and Malik Yakini. 

Automakers are waking up to the realities of autonomous vehicles. In 2016, Ford said that it’d be mass producing vehicles capable of driving without the need for a steering wheel, pedals or a human — Level 5 Autonomous — by 2021. At a recent meeting at the Detroit Economics Club, CEO Jim Hackett walked that back, saying that while the 2021 goal was still in place, but the application would be narrow because of the complexities involved.