Collaboration with Stanford Center for Automotive Research (CARS)

Purpose and goal:

Positive outcome with plans for SSE team visit to Stanford in 2022 to discuss and future activities and collaborations despite somewhat changed conditions during the project.

Logistics turned out to be more challenging than expected given that the Delta variant entailed new restrictions and also that many people continued to work remotely even after Stanford´s campus opened with restrictions. This meant that the dialogue progressed slower than expected. Expected results and effects:

The main purpose was to explore collaborations in applied AI / autonomous vehicles (AI / AV) between the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) and the closely linked Autonomous Systems Lab (ASL) and the Stockholm School of Economics (HHS).

Despite the fact that the dialogue and collaboration specifically with Stanford CARS did not develop as planned due to changed conditions, the visit has resulted in important insights, new valuable contacts at Stanford and the surrounding ecosystem, and future potential collaborations. Approach and implementation:

The implementation was mainly according to plan, however, the Delta variant and subsequent restrictions entailed slightly changed conditions and introduced some logistical challenges during the project.