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76. Off-roading & Ending Stoplights With Autonomous Cars

The Next Byte Podcast · 28 Jun 2022 · 24m

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Hosts Daniel and Forbode discuss two recent advancements in autonomous driving technology. They first cover MIT research on using neural networks to eliminate stop-and-go traffic at intersections, achieving significant reductions in emissions and travel time. They then discuss Carnegie Mellon University's development of the Tartan Drive dataset, which uses dynamic vehicle data to enable off-road autonomous navigation without relying on annotated maps.

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MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, Tesla, Cruise, Argo AI, Ford
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Tartan Drive

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