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Volkswagen demonstrates first successful real-world use of quantum computing to help optimize traffic routing

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During the Web Summit conference in Lisbon, Portugal, nine public transit buses used a traffic management system developed by Volkswagen scientists in the United States and Germany, powered by a D-Wave quantum computer, to calculate the fastest travel routes individually and in near-real time. Earlier post.). —Abdallah Shanti.

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UMTRI team investigating “instantaneous crowdsourcing” to speed adoption of autonomous vehicles

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Combining human and artificial intelligence in autonomous vehicles could push driverless cars more quickly toward wide-scale adoption, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). —Walter Lasecki, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering and a leader of the project.

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