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Self-Driving Cars

Researchers at MIT built a mini city to test algorithms for autonomous cars

Algorithms are tested in the tiny environment before being applied to full size vehicles
By Emmett Smith  on 
MIT's mini city with small autonomous cars driving around
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Researchers at MIT have constructed a mini city in which they're able to test algorithms for self-driving cars in a smaller, safer environment before applying them to full-size vehicles. We met with MIT graduate student Noam Buckman(opens in a new tab) to get a closer look.


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