DeepTraffic

DeepTraffic is a deep reinforcement learning simulation designed to teach and evaluate autonomous driving algorithms in a dense highway environment. The system presents a simulated multi-lane highway where an AI-controlled vehicle must navigate traffic while maximizing speed and avoiding collisions. Participants design neural network policies that determine the vehicle’s actions, such as accelerating, decelerating, changing lanes, or maintaining speed. The project was created as part of an educational competition associated with MIT’s deep learning courses, encouraging students and researchers to experiment with reinforcement learning techniques. The environment provides a coding interface where users can design neural network architectures and tune hyperparameters while observing their agent’s performance in a visual simulation.