{"id":101428,"date":"2020-01-26T23:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/gps-system-upgrade-utilizes-ai-to-make-sure-youre-in-the-right-lane"},"modified":"2020-01-26T23:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T07:23:50","slug":"gps-system-upgrade-utilizes-ai-to-make-sure-youre-in-the-right-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/gps-system-upgrade-utilizes-ai-to-make-sure-youre-in-the-right-lane","title":{"rendered":"GPS system upgrade utilizes AI to make sure you\u2019re in the right lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gps-system-upgrade-utilizes-ai-to-make-sure-youre-in-the-right-lane2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In-car satnav systems and mobile mapping apps have made it much easier to travel from one place to another without getting lost, but a new innovation promises to help fix a remaining pain point \u2013 getting in the right lane at intersections.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s mapping apps aren\u2019t always much help if you\u2019re at an unfamiliar intersection and aren\u2019t sure exactly where on the road your car is supposed to be: the apps often don\u2019t have the detail or the knowledge to warn you in good time about changing lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The system developed by researchers at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute uses satellite imagery to augment existing mapping data, but the smart part is applying artificial intelligence to work out the layout of roads hidden by trees and buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In-car satnav systems and mobile mapping apps have made it much easier to travel from one place to another without getting lost, but a new innovation promises to help fix a remaining pain point \u2013 getting in the right lane at intersections. Today\u2019s mapping apps aren\u2019t always much help if you\u2019re at an unfamiliar intersection [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}