VW: Cooperation with Google announced!

Larry Page from Google announced a cooperation with Volkswagen at his CES keynote speech!
He entered the stage on the rear bump of Stanley, the VW Touareg which won the DARPA challenge last year.

YHEAAAHHHH Larry, in a lab coat, rides onstage on the back of Stanford's robot SUV that won DARPA's competition. He's totally deadpan. "Wow, I've never seen so many cameras in my life."

Larry: "I wanted to let Stanley drive out automatically but they refused for good safety reasons." Inside is one of the car's developers.

4:20 Larry: "Those are laser scanners on the top. That plus GPS was enough to get it through the desert." Larry isn't Steve Jobs, but he's sincere.

Joke product announcement: Google Fast Food autopilot for your dashboard.

"Seriously we have a lot of things to show you ... we had a project with VW to do a prototype Google dashboard ... This is Daniel, he's going to give a quick demo of going from Las Vegas to the Strip ... you can see restaurants and gas stations ... you can also see a birds-eye view ... this is all live (unlike earlier demo).

Great!



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Source: Engadget

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