MIT Driverless

Zooming through progress. 🦫🏎️💨

Meet our Chief Engineer, Rumaisa! 🏁🚩

She’s a multi-faceted, engineering expert who truly does it all:
• 👩‍🎨 Artist creating and animating murals
• 🧭 Researcher studying autonomous robot navigation @ SPARK Lab
• 👩‍🏫 Instructor teaching college girls programming through

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Workshop Wednesdays highlight what our engineers are working on every week! Keep up to date with our progress. 🦫🏎️💨

Exciting! Takes us back to January!

Indy Autonomous Challenge to Return to CES 2023 With Boosted Engine Package on All Cars - Indy Autonomous Challenge - Official Website The Consumer Technology Association (CTA)® today announced that after making history at CES 2022 with the world’s first-ever, head-to-head autonomous racecar competition, that the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) will return to CES 2023®. The Autonomous Challenge @ CES will take place at the Las ...

A few months ago we participated in a Tech Talk hosted by HackMIT where we talked about our team, how we fund it, and gave a peek at the car and some of the inner workings. Check it out below!

Driverless Tech Talk

Our wonderful team is ready for the Oracle Innovation Lab Grand Opening! Excited to keep sharing more about our work in the field of autonomous racing as part of the Indy Autonomous Challenge. 🏎🏁

Tune in at 4:30pm EST today (Saturday, February 19) for a tech talk by MIT Driverless! It’ll be broadcast live on the HackMIT YouTube channel.

MIT-PIT-RW is a collaboration of 4 schools writing the software for autonomous racecars! Our student-led team competes in the Indy Autonomous Challenge and Roborace, and seeks to advance practical autonomy through collaboration and competition. Our cars race head to head at speeds of up to 180MPH for prizes of up to $1M.

Andrew is a 2nd year Leaders for Global Operations student at MIT, pursuing an MBA and a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to MIT, he was a nuclear submarine officer in the US navy for 7 years, serving on the USS Pittsburgh, and also working at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. He led the MIT Driverless team, and co-captained the joint MIT-PIT-RW team until this January, when he left the team in Cindy's capable hands. After graduation this spring he will be headed to Zoox as a technical product manager, where he will continue to work on advancing the state of autonomous vehicles.

Cindy is a 1st year MBA student at MIT. Prior to MIT, she was a corporate development & strategy intern at TuSimple, a leading autonomous trucking company, and has also worked in roles across venture capital and startups. She joined MIT Driverless on the business operations team before taking on the co-captain role for the team.

Happy Valentine’s Day!
A throw back to the fun time that the team had in Las Vegas this January for the Autonomous Challenge @ CES 2022!

Happy birthday Ben Zhang !

❄️ Let it snow ❄️
🧊 Cambridge after storm 🧊
PC: .yue

Throwback!
This is the first time we had jerseys and the first time we could work on OUR car! Before it tuned into the awesome look in the previous post!