The Volkswagen Group of America is the North American subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group based in Wolfsburg, Germany. They are a global leader in automobile manufacturing and employ more than 10,000 people across the United States, distributing vehicles through a 1,000-dealer network.

Nearly everyone uses a variation of maps to navigate from their starting point to their destination. However, many maps overlook the importance of customer safety. Therefore, users need a reliable, safe method to plot them a route that is not only fast, but safe.

Our Safe Journey AI 2.0 provides users with the fastest and safest route to their destination, considering a route’s unique safety rating and real-time alerts on weather, crime, and other hazardous events that may fall on their path as they drive to their destination.

Our software doesn’t just stop monitoring user safety when they leave their vehicle. Safe Walk is a feature that tracks the user from the moment they leave their vehicle until they reach their final destination. If the user takes longer than estimated or diverges onto the wrong path, a registered emergency contact is alerted, notifying them that the user may be in danger and providing them the location of the user and their vehicle.

Our system integrates into Android Auto, improving the user’s safety by keeping them off their phones and streamlining their driving experience. Our program provides coverage over the entire state of Michigan, enabling reliable route planning for users. By using Safe Journey AI 2.0, users easily navigate faster and safer than ever before.

Our software is an Android Application written in Kotlin, leveraging the Mapbox SDK for navigation. Our back end is developed with FastAPI and Python, utilizing Scikit-Learn for our machine learning implementation and Firebase for data storage.