College of Engineering student working on drone prototype for autonomous vehicles
"About 20 students at Ford's Detroit neighbor, Wayne State University, have come closest to duplicating the concept of the automaker's patent app. Working with drone maker Skypersonic LLC, the students developed a prototype that can show images from a drone's camera on a car's in-dash screen.
"We are mainly trying to design an autonomous system for the drone to come inside the car for the driver, so that whenever he wants it, with the click of a button, he can give instructions just sitting in the car," Amey Chodankar, a Wayne State graduate student told The Detroit News."