autonomous driving
Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology
On May 6, MIT AgeLab’s Advanced Vehicle Technology (AVT) Consortium, part of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, celebrated 10 years of its global academic-industry collaboration. AVT was founded with the aim of developing new data that contribute to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and insurers’ real-world understanding of how drivers use and respond to increasingly…
Why Waabi’s AI-Driven Virtual Trucks Are the Future of Self-Driving Technology
Imagine an 80,000-pound truck driving down a foggy highway at night. Suddenly, a deer runs onto the road, and the truck smoothly maneuvers, narrowly avoiding an accident. However, this scenario does not happen in real life; it happens inside an incredibly realistic virtual simulation. This vision is exactly what Waabi, a Canadian startup founded by…