Affective Intelligent Driving Agent
The Affective Intelligent Driving Agent, AIDA, is a new robot that helps you though modern traffic in an empathetic way.
AIDA is a product of the collaboration between Audi, MIT's Personal Robots Group, MIT's SENSEable City Lab en de Volkswagen Group of America's Electronics Research Lab. It looks to me as a new version of ET (Phone Home...). Perhaps this exactly what MIT wants to achieve. AIDA brings all ambiguous data together en presents it in a empathetic way. AIDA learns the behavior of the driver en anticipates on the routes the driver is going to make. For example the daily trip from home to work, of shopping at the weekends. This information is combined with all other information such as news, real time events and other information concerning the routes.