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No Map, No Problem: MIT's Self-Driving System Takes on npaved Roads
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Today's most advanced autonomous driving systems rely on maps that have been carefully detailed and characterized in advanced. That means the millions of miles of unpaved roads in the United States are effectively off-limits.
But a team of computer scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have designed a self-driving system aimed at successfully navigating unpaved roads by using basic GPS data and sensors technology.
Using simple GPS data that can be found on Google Maps and an array of sensors to scan the surroundings, the team's MapLite system navigates along unpaved roads, observing road conditions over 100 feet in advance.
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