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Local Lens: Augmented Reality Social Feed
An augmented reality overlay that integrates with autonomous vehicle navigation, highlighting local businesses, community events, and interactive social connections based on the rider's route. Encourages exploration and serendipitous encounters, counteracting the isolation of AV travel. Uses visual queues projected onto vehicle windows.

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Autonomous vehicles seamlessly integrate with smart city infrastructure, optimizing traffic flow and reducing congestion through predictive route adjustments.
Extrapolated from DeepSeek’s R1 and OpenAI’s Deep Research just redefined AI — RAG, distillation, and custom models will never be the same - VentureBeat

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