MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

  • May 8, 2018
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MIT Invented a Tool That Allows Driverless Cars to Navigate Rural Roads Without a Map

In a paper posted online on May 7 by CSAIL and project partner Toyota, 30-year-old PhD candidate Teddy Ort—along with co-authors Liam Paull and Daniela Rus—detail how using LIDAR (a radar-like sensor that uses lasers instead of radio waves to measure distances) and GPS together can enable self-driving cars to navigate on rural roads without having a detailed map to guide them. The team was able to drive down a number of unpaved roads in rural Massachusetts and reliably scan the road for curves and obstacles up to 100 feet ahead, according to the paper.

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