May Mobility, a self-driving startup in Ann Arbor, offered the author her first glimpse of true self-driving vehicles in Michigan.

There is no vehicle currently for sale that are legally considered self-driving.

“We’re going to drive alongside other humans?” I say in a voice a few octaves higher than normal.

“Oh yeah,” Edwin Olson, CEO and founder of autonomous shuttle company May Mobility, tells me from the middle row of a Toyota Sienna.

Past him, I can see the minivan’s steering wheel rolling left and right, partially obscured by the empty driver’s seat. The vehicle directs itself onto a busy road.

“Oh wow.”

“This is a real autonomous car,” Olson says, sounding surprised at my surprise. After all, I had just interviewed him for over an hour at May Mobility's corporate offices and w

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