{"id":2909,"date":"2021-01-06T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2021-02-10T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:01:04","slug":"new-autonomous-vehicle-research-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/2021\/01\/06\/new-autonomous-vehicle-research-group\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW Autonomous Vehicle Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VEMI is pleased to announce our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/inclusive-design-challenge\/inclusive-design-challenge-semifinalists\">discretionary prize<\/a> of $300,000 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/accessibility\/inclusivedesign\">U.S. DOT\u2019s Inclusive Design Challenge<\/a> to develop &#8220;Ava&#8221;, the Autonomous Vehicle Assistant. Through this development project, we will be collaborating with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colby.edu\/\">Colby College<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northeastern.edu\/\">Northeastern University<\/a>. For more information, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/positions\/av-research-group\/\">Autonomous Vehicle Research Group<\/a> on our website and to keep updated, be sure to follow the Autonomous Vehicle Research Group&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AV_RGroup\">Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 We are extremely honored and excited about what&#8217;s to come!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VEMI is pleased to announce our discretionary prize of $300,000 from the U.S. DOT\u2019s Inclusive Design Challenge to develop &#8220;Ava&#8221;, the Autonomous Vehicle Assistant. Through this development project, we will be collaborating with Colby College and Northeastern University. For more information, check out our Autonomous Vehicle Research Group on our website and to keep updated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"39","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[290,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avr","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":290,"label":"AVR"},{"value":39,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/author\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":290,"name":"AVR","slug":"avr","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":290,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":37,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":290,"category_count":37,"category_description":"","cat_name":"AVR","category_nicename":"avr","category_parent":0},{"term_id":39,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":76,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":39,"category_count":76,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}