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The Roadside World Model Chose Which Cars Were Worth Hearing

Conductor prioritizes vehicles that see beyond roadside sensors, then trims fusion and prediction work to stay inside an age-of-information bound.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-09-07-006
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Summary

Conductor prioritizes vehicles that see beyond roadside sensors, then trims fusion and prediction work to stay inside an age-of-information bound.

Instead of making each connected car fuse every other actor's observations, Conductor builds one edge-hosted world model from a fixed roadside perspective. An occlusion-aware selector favors vehicles contributing otherwise hidden objects, while a runtime controller adjusts both input count and trajectory predictions. In simulation with as many as 31 connected vehicles, the joint controller met the timing bound and approached oracle fusion fidelity. That is simulated infrastructure evidence, not a deployed collision-prevention claim.

Why it matters

Conductor prioritizes vehicles that see beyond roadside sensors, then trims fusion and prediction work to stay inside an age-of-information bound.

Limits and context

  • That is simulated infrastructure evidence, not a deployed collision-prevention claim.

Key claims

  1. Conductor prioritizes vehicles that see beyond roadside sensors, then trims fusion and prediction work to stay inside an age-of-information bound.

    Qualification: That is simulated infrastructure evidence, not a deployed collision-prevention claim.

    Evidence: source-2026-09-07-006

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2609.04364arXiv · primary research

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