MIT AgeLab, a part of the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT, is beginning a new research initiative that analyzes advanced vehicle technology use in real-world scenarios. In particular, we are interested in which technologies people use/do not use, how people learn and interact with each technology, and which technologies promote safe driving.
For this project, we would ideally find drivers of recently purchased vehicles and install our removable, small form-factor, non-intrusive data-logging equipment in the vehicles. We would love to get Tesla drivers on board, since Tesla has the most cutting edge version of the advanced technologies we are interested in studying. This equipment would record things like audio/video from the cab, acceleration data, gyroscope data, GPS position, and a wide array of vehicle telemetry (velocity, wheel position, state of alarms and active safety systems, etc.). Privacy is very important to us. All data would be stored securely at MIT, and any results would be published without personally identifiable information. We would need access to your car to install and remove the equipment, and may need to do data retrieval/equipment maintenance once every other month or so.
While we are not yet installing this equipment, we did want to gauge general interest and concerns with our study. Is this a project that you’d be interested in hearing more about? What concerns would you have? If you were to participate, what would you consider to be fair compensation?
I look forward to hearing any input you have. I will be following this thread, but you are also welcome to contact me directly at [email protected]. If you have interest in the technical aspects of this study, especially related to the underlying machine learning and computer vision algorithms, feel free to reach out to my colleague Lex at [email protected] - he would love to hear from you. Thanks so much for reading!
Hillary Abraham
Research Associate, MIT AgeLab
For this project, we would ideally find drivers of recently purchased vehicles and install our removable, small form-factor, non-intrusive data-logging equipment in the vehicles. We would love to get Tesla drivers on board, since Tesla has the most cutting edge version of the advanced technologies we are interested in studying. This equipment would record things like audio/video from the cab, acceleration data, gyroscope data, GPS position, and a wide array of vehicle telemetry (velocity, wheel position, state of alarms and active safety systems, etc.). Privacy is very important to us. All data would be stored securely at MIT, and any results would be published without personally identifiable information. We would need access to your car to install and remove the equipment, and may need to do data retrieval/equipment maintenance once every other month or so.
While we are not yet installing this equipment, we did want to gauge general interest and concerns with our study. Is this a project that you’d be interested in hearing more about? What concerns would you have? If you were to participate, what would you consider to be fair compensation?
I look forward to hearing any input you have. I will be following this thread, but you are also welcome to contact me directly at [email protected]. If you have interest in the technical aspects of this study, especially related to the underlying machine learning and computer vision algorithms, feel free to reach out to my colleague Lex at [email protected] - he would love to hear from you. Thanks so much for reading!
Hillary Abraham
Research Associate, MIT AgeLab