Cambridge, MA – October 15, 2025 – Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world’s largest telematics service provider, today announced the launch of DriveWell Atlas, a suite of Telematics Foundation Models, ushering in a new era of AI for mobility. Building on more than a decade of applying artificial intelligence to driving data, DriveWell Atlas is a breakthrough approach that mirrors the foundation model revolution transforming industries from language to robotics.
CMT has pioneered the use of AI in telematics since the early days of the smartphone and IoT, delivering AI-powered models fueled by sensor data that detect distracted driving, crashes, and risky behaviors across more than 55 million drivers worldwide. DriveWell Atlas represents the next step in this evolution, moving from single-purpose models based on individual classifiers to a foundation that learns the underlying physics of force, motion, and trajectory across CMT’s platform.
Foundation models are a revolutionary AI breakthrough where a single, powerful model is trained on a massive dataset, learning the fundamental principles of that data. This model can then be quickly adapted for a wide variety of specific tasks. Much like foundation models have transformed how AI works with language and images, CMT’s DriveWell Atlas is the first to apply this approach to the physics of mobility.
DriveWell Atlas learns from the world’s driving behavior to unlock capabilities that haven’t been possible before. It understands not just what happened on the road, but why. Where prior models relied on a fixed set of pre-defined risk events, DriveWell Atlas is able to discover new patterns of risk. It reveals hidden relationships in driving dynamics, enabling a new level of context, learning, and precision.
DriveWell Atlas transforms raw sensor streams into meaningful patterns — the “embeddings” of mobility. Much like how language models understand “It’s cold outside” and “The temperature outdoors is low” as the same idea, DriveWell Atlas finds equivalence and nuance in sensor data.
For example, DriveWell Atlas can learn that a sudden deceleration is a defensive brake, not inattentive driving; that swerving could be to avoid a collision, not recklessness; or that a collision was a side swipe. These patterns enable us to understand and respond to risk and crashes with more context and precision.
DriveWell Atlas also removes the need for labeling hundreds of thousands of examples of any given behavior. By enabling few-shot learning, DriveWell Atlas successfully generalizes from many fewer examples. That means CMT and our partners can uncover and validate risk factors faster — for instance, understanding how ADAS lane-keeping assistance or blind-spot warnings affect crash likelihood.
CMT’s DriveWell Fusion® Platform fuses data from phones, Tags, connected cars, video, and third-party sensors. DriveWell Atlas takes data harmonization to a new level, learning to predict missing or incomplete data and normalizing across every source. The result is consistent risk events and detection, no matter where the data originates. Whether from a smartphone, a Tag, a vehicle API, or an aftermarket device, DriveWell Atlas delivers the same interpretation of driver behavior.
“Foundation models are redefining what’s possible in AI,” said Dr. Hari Balakrishnan, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at CMT. “At CMT, we’re applying this breakthrough to mobility. Our team has built foundation models that understand the physics of driving at an entirely new level. This means more effective risk prediction, prevention, and response for insurers, mobility providers, and the public sector, better experiences for drivers, and safer roads for everyone.”
About Cambridge Mobile TelematicsCambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT) is the world’s largest telematics service provider. Its mission is to make the world’s roads and drivers safer. The company’s AI-driven platform, DriveWell Fusion®, proactively identifies and reduces driving risk, leading to fewer crashes and injuries, making mobility safer. To date, CMT’s technology has helped prevent over 100,000 crashes worldwide. CMT partners with insurers, automakers, commercial mobility companies, and the public sector to measure risk, detect crashes, provide life-saving assistance, and streamline claims. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, CMT operates globally with offices in Budapest, Chennai, Seattle, Tokyo, and Zagreb. Learn more at www.cmt.ai.