{"id":2967,"date":"2021-02-12T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2021-02-12T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:17:56","slug":"autonomous-vehicle-research-group-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/2021\/02\/12\/autonomous-vehicle-research-group-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous Vehicle Research Group in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/av-research-group\/\">The Autonomous Vehicle Research Group<\/a> at the VEMI lab has been picking up articles in local news platforms. This is due to being semifinalists for the U.S. DOT\u2019s Inclusive Design Challenge, where VEMI plans to develop \u201cAva\u201d, the Autonomous Vehicle Assistant. Ava is an innovative ride-hailing and localization smartphone application. Read the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbangor.com\/news\/item\/a-self-driving-car-app-is-coming-to-maine\/\">Fox Bangor News put out here<\/a>, and the article<a href=\"https:\/\/bangordailynews.com\/2021\/02\/02\/bdn-maine\/app-from-vemi-lab-group-will-help-people-with-visual-impairments-seniors-enjoy-ride-sharing-with-self-driving-cars\/\"> Bangor Daily News wrote here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at the VEMI lab has been picking up articles in local news platforms. This is due to being semifinalists for the U.S. DOT\u2019s Inclusive Design Challenge, where VEMI plans to develop \u201cAva\u201d, the Autonomous Vehicle Assistant. Ava is an innovative ride-hailing and localization smartphone application. Read the article Fox Bangor [&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":"","_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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"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":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\/2967","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=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2970,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/vemi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}