Safer Teen Driving in the Age of Smartphones

Throughout this week, I have been continuing work on the traffic speed visualization program I was previously working on. In my last blog post I had a visualization that showed traffic speeds on streets across Austin; Since then, I have added a few new features to the program, including: Live...

With the driving scores project, we have begun the first round of collecting data samples of different driving events. In order to create a program that identifies and assesses driving events, we first need to create a large dataset of examples of to teach our classifier (an algorithm...

I started off my week with a deviation from my main project: creating a visualization of traffic speeds using Metropia's traffic data for Austin, Texas. In order to tell its users the fastest route, Metropia determines and predicts the speed of traffic on every road. This information...

As a research intern at Metropia, my main task is to help develop a program to assess driving through the motions of a smartphone located in the car. Thus, my first week at Metropia has been primarily focused on gaining familiarity with phone accelerometers and reading up on current...