Study: Low-emissions vehicles are less expensive overall
You might think cars with low carbon emissions are expensive. Think again. A newly-published study by MIT researchers shows that when operating and maintenance costs are included in a vehicle’s price,...
View ArticleOptimizing parking in the busiest places
Many businesses in the financial, technology, and other industries have used data analytics for years to monitor and maximize profits. But there’s been no such technology for the traditional parking...
View ArticleDriverless platoons
As driverless cars merge into our transportation system in the coming years, some researchers believe autonomous vehicles may save fuel by trailing each other in large platoons. Like birds and fighter...
View ArticleSMART automation
Daniela Rus loves Singapore. As the MIT professor sits down in her Frank Gehry-designed office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to talk about her research conducted in Singapore, her face starts to relax...
View ArticleStudy: Volkswagen’s excess emissions will lead to 1,200 premature deaths in...
In September 2015, the German Volkswagen Group, the world’s largest car producer, admitted to having installed “defeat devices” in 11 million diesel cars sold worldwide between 2008 and 2015. The...
View ArticleSharing the fares
A newly published study co-authored by MIT researchers suggests that urban ride-sharing is feasible in a wide variety of cities around the globe — and indeed that the potential “shareability” of autos...
View ArticleMulti-university effort will advance materials, define the future of mobility
Three MIT-affiliated research teams will receive about $10M in funding as part of a $35M materials science discovery program launched by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI). Provided over four years,...
View ArticleAgeLab researching autonomous vehicle systems in ongoing collaboration with...
The MIT AgeLab will build and analyze new deep-learning-based perception and motion planning technologies for automated vehicles in partnership with the Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center...
View ArticleMIT team races to second in electric car competition
There comes a time in a team's life when it's impossible not to break into a grin. Which is what the MIT Motorsports team did when they snagged a Second Place Overall Spirit of Excellence Award at the...
View ArticleA simple solution for terrible traffic
Cities plagued with terrible traffic problems may be overlooking a simple, low-cost solution: High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policies that encourage carpooling can reduce traffic drastically, according...
View Article3 Questions: Iyad Rahwan on the “psychological roadblocks” facing...
This summer, a survey released by the American Automobile Association showed that 78 percent of Americans feared riding in a self-driving car, with just 19 percent trusting the technology. What might...
View ArticleBuilding 31 powers back up
A $52 million renovation of the 90-year-old Building 31 on MIT’s campus has transformed the space into a gleaming home for research in autonomy, turbomachinery, energy storage, and transportation. The...
View ArticleMIT AgeLab's Bryan Reimer wins Autos2050 award
Bryan Reimer, an AgeLab research scientist and the associate director of the New England University Transportation Center, has been selected to receive an inaugural Autos2050 Driving Innovation Award...
View ArticleDesigning vehicle-sharing networks
The proliferation of smartphones, vehicle-sharing apps, and traffic sensors has amounted to a wealth of data that can be used to provide insight for increasing the efficiency and sustainability of...
View Article3Q: John Heywood on the future of the internal combustion engine
The future of the internal combustion engine, with some 2 billion in use in the world today, was a hot topic at last week’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) World Congress in Detroit. There, John...
View ArticleSelf-driving cars for country roads
Navigating roads less traveled in self-driving cars is a difficult task. One reason is that there aren’t many places where self-driving cars can actually drive. Companies like Google only test their...
View ArticleMaking driverless cars change lanes more like human drivers do
In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on...
View ArticleHow many taxis does a city need?
The rise of self-driving cars is set to dramatically alter the way we move around cities in the future.In particular, private car ownership is expected to shift toward shared mobility services, with...
View ArticleOn a mission to build the uncrashable car
Ryan Eustice’s interest in self-driving cars began 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on...
View ArticleMIT alumnus and GM engineer returns to campus to inspire student innovation
Will Dickson ’14 has parked General Motors’ first self-driving vehicle, the Cruise AV, on campus and invited MIT students to think flexibly about its design opportunities. “You are future engineers and...
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