Driving Successfully: Anne Fabiny, MD
Driving Successfully: Anne Fabiny, MD
Anne Fabiny, MD, Chief of Geriatrics, Cambridge Health Alliance, explores the medical aspects of aging that might impact one's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely
Driving Successfully: Joe Coughlin
Driving Successfully: Joe Coughlin
AgeLab and New England University Transportation Center Director Joe Coughlin speaks on driving successfully as we age.
AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
AIDA - The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA) - a new in-car personal robot that aims to change the way we interact with our car. The project is a collaboration between the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, MIT's SENSEable City Lab and the Volkswagen Group ...
Formation of a 'phantom traffic jam'
Formation of a 'phantom traffic jam'
Read the full story at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/traffic-0609.html
The Future is Gray, Small & Female: Disruptive Demographics ...
The Future is Gray, Small & Female: Disruptive Demographics and ...
11/02/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Joseph F. Coughlin, Director, MIT AgeLab; Engineering Systems DivisionDescription: If the prospect of aging and infirmity seems remote, you could use some time with AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System), a wearable apparatus that approximates ...
Concentrate on Distracted Driving: A Challenge to MIT ...
Concentrate on Distracted Driving: A Challenge to MIT Students from US ...
05/03/2010 12:00 PM E14"674Ray LaHood, US Secretary of TransportationDescription: From the MIT News Office: Research has shown that talking on a phone while driving, even with a hands"free cellphone, causes as much of an impairment to driving ability as being drunk. ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World ...
Sustainable Accessibility: A Grand Challenge for the World and for MIT
02/09/2010 4:00 PM 3"270John Sterman, PhD '82, Forrester Professor of Management and Engineering Systems, and; Director, System Dynamics Group, MIT Description: Transportation systems, as we know them today, will simply not sustain the worlds' growing population. ...
Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
Autonomous Vehicles and Urban Mobility
12/08/2009 32"124Emilio Frazzoli, Associate Professor of Aeronautics and AstronauticsDescription: If you had half a million dollars, would you opt for a passenger car that could drive itself (called an autonomous vehicle) or would you choose a new Ferrari? Emilio Frazzoli provides a number of ...
From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation
From IT to Cleantech: New Sources of Innovation
12/04/2008 3:45 PM Wong AuditoriumShai Agassi, Founder & CEO, Better PlaceDescription: Imagine a response to oil dependence and climate change that offers people around the world a new and improved version of the car, premised on redesigning infrastructure top to ...
Technologies Changing Communities, Communities Innovating ...
Technologies Changing Communities, Communities Innovating Technology
11/05/2008 6:00 PM MuseumDayna Cunningham, SL'04, Executive Director, Community Innovators Lab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Alexa Mills, Community Media Artist, MIT Community Innovators LabDescription: The best way to help a community help itself, say ...