September 28, 2022 – Driverless vehicle research on campus is about to get a big boost thanks to a new National Science Foundation grant. According to the grant summary, a team of five faculty have been approved to “acquire an Autonomous Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle research platform to support collaborative and multidisciplinary research and education activities in several areas, including embodied cognitive vehicle, in-vehicular network security, energy consumption, environmental perception, cybersecurity, and driver behavior analyses in electric and advanced mobilities.”