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Project Sidewalk got featured on Technica.ly

Kotaro Hara

By Kotaro Hara

Jul 30, 2015

A screenshot of the Technica.ly article

Our project got featured on Technica.ly after giving a presentation at Transportation Tech in Baltimore. See the article here: How this UMD researcher is using Google Street View to make the physical world more accessible.

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