Senior leaders look to Formula One and MIT for learning at high speed
Last year, a brand-new experiment took place at Formula One tracks around the world. A roaring success, this one-of-a-kind experience is back in 2019.A collaboration between Formula One and MIT Sloan...
View ArticleTaking a city’s pulse with moveable sensors
Suppose you have 10 taxis in Manhattan. What portion of the borough’s streets do they cover in a typical day?Before we answer that, let’s examine why it would be useful to know this fact. Cities have a...
View ArticleStudy measures how fast humans react to road hazards
Imagine you’re sitting in the driver’s seat of an autonomous car, cruising along a highway and staring down at your smartphone. Suddenly, the car detects a moose charging out of the woods and alerts...
View ArticleMIT-Delft University of Technology team places third in Formula Student...
Students from the MIT Driverless team, together with students from Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), placed third overall — in a field of 20 university competitors — in the Driverless category...
View ArticleWhat’s the best way to cut vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions?
Policies to encourage reductions in greenhouse gas emissions tend to stress the need to switch as many vehicles as possible to electric power. But a new study by MIT and the Ford Motor Company finds...
View ArticleHelping autonomous vehicles see around corners
To improve the safety of autonomous systems, MIT engineers have developed a system that can sense tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object coming around the corner....
View ArticleBetter autonomous “reasoning” at tricky intersections
MIT and Toyota researchers have designed a new model to help autonomous vehicles determine when it’s safe to merge into traffic at intersections with obstructed views.Navigating intersections can be...
View ArticlePredicting people's driving personalities
Self-driving cars are coming. But for all their fancy sensors and intricate data-crunching abilities, even the most cutting-edge cars lack something that (almost) every 16-year-old with a learner’s...
View ArticleMIT Energy Initiative report charts pathways for sustainable personal...
In our daily lives, we all make choices about how we travel and what type of vehicle we own or use. We consider these choices within the constraints of our current transportation system and weigh...
View ArticleLamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future
“He was here to dream, and I said 'OK, let's dream together,'” recalls Professor Mircea Dincă of his first encounter with Automobili Lamborghini Head of Development Riccardo Parenti in February 2017....
View ArticleGetting the carbon out of the electricity sector
The generation of electricity is a huge contributor to the world’s emissions of climate-altering greenhouse gases, producing some 25 percent globally. That’s because more than two-thirds of the world’s...
View ArticleUsing artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps
A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps could help improve GPS navigation. Showing drivers...
View ArticleTo self-drive in the snow, look under the road
Car companies have been feverishly working to improve the technologies behind self-driving cars. But so far even the most high-tech vehicles still fail when it comes to safely navigating in rain and...
View ArticleDeep cuts in greenhouse emissions are tough but doable, experts say
How can the world cut its greenhouse gas emissions in time to avert the most catastrophic impacts of global climate change? It won’t be easy, but there are reasons to be optimistic that the problems...
View ArticleSolar energy farms could offer second life for electric vehicle batteries
As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer sufficient for vehicles that need reliable acceleration and range....
View ArticleStiffer roadways could improve truck fuel efficiency
Every time you hear a deep rumble and feel your house shake when a big truck roars by, that’s partly because the weight of heavy vehicles causes a slight deflection in the road surface under them. It’s...
View ArticleMIT and Toyota release innovative dataset to accelerate autonomous driving...
The following was issued as a joint release from the MIT AgeLab and Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center.How can we train self-driving vehicles to have a deeper awareness of the world around...
View ArticleRacing into the future of autonomous driving
On a cloudy day last August, Emily Zhang held her breath at the Hockenheimring racetrack in Germany’s Rhine Valley. Less than two weeks after the circuit hosted the German Grand Prix, it was the stage...
View ArticleDoes ride-sharing substitute for or complement public transit?
Ride-sharing apps like Uber, Lyft, Grab, and DiDi have become ubiquitous in cities around the world, but have also attracted much backlash from established taxi companies. Despite its adoption...
View ArticleMobility Systems Center awards four projects for low-carbon transportation...
The Mobility Systems Center (MSC), one of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)’s Low-Carbon Energy Centers, will fund four new research projects that will allow for deeper insights into achieving a...
View ArticleLessons from the Clean Air Car Race 50 years later
The year 1970 was a milestone for efforts to combat air pollution. On April 22, the first Earth Day was celebrated. The 1970 Clean Air Act was the first policy to establish federal regulations on car...
View ArticleHow MIT’s rocket, electric car, and solar vehicle teams have adjusted to the...
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit all areas of the MIT communty. Those for which in-person hands-on experiences traditionally take center stage have had to pivot in unique ways. In this Q&A, the MIT...
View Article“What to Expect When You’re Expecting Robots”
As Covid-19 has made it necessary for people to keep their distance from each other, robots are stepping in to fill essential roles, such as sanitizing warehouses and hospitals, ferrying test samples...
View ArticleConcept for a hybrid-electric plane may reduce aviation’s air pollution problem
At cruising altitude, airplanes emit a steady stream of nitrogen oxides into the atmosphere, where the chemicals can linger to produce ozone and fine particulates. Nitrogen oxides, or NOx, are a major...
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How to get more electric cars on the road
A new study from researchers at MIT uncovers the kinds of infrastructure improvements that would make the biggest difference in increasing the number of electric cars on the road, a key step toward...
View ArticleDriving on the cutting edge of autonomous vehicle tech
In October, a modified Dallara-15 Indy Lights race car programmed by MIT Driverless will hit the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway at speeds of up to 120 miles per hour. The Indy Autonomous Challenge...
View ArticleStudy finds ride-sharing intensifies urban road congestion
Transport network companies (TNCs), or ride-sharing companies, have gained widespread popularity across much of the world, with more and more cities adopting the phenomenon. While ride-sharing has been...
View ArticleChina’s transition to electric vehicles
In recent decades, China’s rapideconomic growth has enabled more and more consumers to buy their own cars. The result has been improved mobility and the largest automotive market in the world — but...
View ArticleTrying to put the brakes on car ownership
To limit pollution and traffic congestion in Beijing, officials in 2011 imposed a citywide restriction on the number of automobiles residents can purchase annually. That policy has helped limit car...
View ArticleDriving commuters toward sustainable options
When organizations like MIT transitioned to remote work and learning last year in the interest of health and safety, one impact of this change was immediately visible to many people — a large decrease...
View ArticleDesigning better batteries for electric vehicles
The urgent need to cut carbon emissions is prompting a rapid move toward electrified mobility and expanded deployment of solar and wind on the electric grid. If those trends escalate as expected, the...
View Article3 Questions: Daniel Cohn on the benefits of high-efficiency, flexible-fuel...
The California Air Resources Board has adopted a regulation that requires truck and engine manufacturers to reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from new heavy-duty trucks by 90 percent starting...
View Article3 Questions: What a single car can say about traffic
Vehicle traffic has long defied description. Once measured roughly through visual inspection and traffic cameras, new smartphone crowdsourcing tools are now quantifying traffic far more precisely. This...
View ArticleMIT engineering design and rapid prototyping course gets a refresh
The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL Program) recently revamped and relaunched 16.810 (Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping), an existing Department of Aeronautics and...
View ArticleCould we make cars out of petroleum residue?
As the world struggles to improve the efficiency of cars and other vehicles in order to curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve the range of electric vehicles, the search is on for ever-lighter...
View ArticleRide-hailing without the traffic snarls?
In theory, competition among ride-hailing companies should be a good thing, providing more options for consumers. In practice, having too many ride-hailing vehicles adds to urban congestion. How can...
View ArticleA global resource for better transportation systems
Launched in 2020, the MIT Mobility Initiative (MMI) is a unique cross-Institute initiative aimed at convening key stakeholders to drive innovation, while providing unbiased strategic direction to guide...
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View ArticleReversing the charge
Owners of electric vehicles (EVs) are accustomed to plugging into charging stations at home and at work and filling up their batteries with electricity from the power grid. But someday soon, when these...
View ArticleMinimizing electric vehicles’ impact on the grid
National and global plans to combat climate change include increasing the electrification of vehicles and the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources. But some projections show that...
View ArticleWill the charging networks arrive in time?
For many owners of electric vehicles (EVs), or for prospective EV owners, a thorny problem is where to charge them. Even as legacy automakers increasingly invest in manufacturing more all-electric cars...
View ArticleTaking the congestion out of commuting
Whether it’s been by foot, horse or car, the question has been eternal: What's the best way to get from Point A to Point B? At one time, the challenge was merely traffic, and the need was just moving...
View ArticleDriven to driverless
When Cindy Heredia was choosing an MBA program, she knew she wanted to be at the forefront of the autonomous driving industry. While doing research, she discovered that MIT had a unique offering: a...
View ArticleHarnessing hydrogen’s potential to address long-haul trucking emissions
The transportation of goods forms the basis of today’s globally distributed supply chains, and long-haul trucking is a central and critical link in this complex system. To meet climate goals around the...
View ArticleThe future of motorcycles could be hydrogen
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team, which has a long record of building and racing innovative electric vehicles, including cars and motorcycles, in international professional-level competitions, is trying...
View ArticleCobalt-free batteries could power cars of the future
Many electric vehicles are powered by batteries that contain cobalt — a metal that carries high financial, environmental, and social costs.MIT researchers have now designed a battery material that...
View ArticleAgeLab’s Bryan Reimer named to US Department of Transportation innovation...
Bryan Reimer, research scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics’ (MIT CTL) AgeLab, has been appointed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) to the Transforming...
View ArticleMIT students win national materials design competition
Two MIT undergrads recently took the top spot — and $2,000 in prize money to share — in the annual ASM Materials Education Foundation’s 2023 Undergraduate Design Competition. Louise Anderfaas and Darsh...
View ArticlePat McAtamney: Empowering student-led engineering teams
At the Open House for the Edgerton Center Clubs and team this past fall, MIT Technical Instructor Pat McAtamney cheerfully grilled hundreds of hot dogs and burgers for a long line of hungry students...
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