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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center launches 5-year, $35M program on autonomous and connected vehicle technologies

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These highly advanced systems are radically reshaping the transportation landscape, building a relationship between drivers, occupants and vehicles as teammates working together safely and conveniently. Another, with MIT, modelled in-vehicle voice command systems and driver behavior. —Chuck Gulash, Director of CSRC.

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Toyota Research Institute invests $22M in research on AI, robotics and autonomous driving at University of Michigan

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We will also focus on expanding the benefit of mobility technology to in-home support of older persons and those with special needs. TRI-ANN is the third TRI facility, joining TRI offices in Palo Alto near Stanford and in Cambridge, near MIT. —Gil Pratt. Both will retain U-M faculty positions part-time.

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How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production

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You study many areas in civil engineering, including structures, soils, transportation, and the environment,” she says. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ’s satellites over extended areas of North America and the Gulf of Mexico. She switched her major to civil and environmental engineering.

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Car Crash Prevention System Wins Student $10,000 IEEE Scholarship

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The incoming freshman at MIT won $600. I'm a very competitive person," he says, "so I was motivated to try and disprove these articles and actually build this device.". Google Earth , she was able to gather and annotate more than 1,000 images of beaches in Africa, Australia, and North America. Brian Minnick.

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MIT Energy Initiative report on transforming the US transportation system by 2050 to address climate challenges

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We should continue to adopt policies to reduce transportation energy demand and emissions, while using our evolving information base to assess and reassess which options have the greatest leverage. Overall, we have substantial opportunities for reducing environmental and climate impacts from light-duty road vehicles. —John Heywood.

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