German Chancellor Dedicates VAIL, We Go For A Ride In A Self-Parking Car. Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 16 of April , 2010 at 3:49 am BotJunkie got invited to the official dedication of the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory at Stanford yesterday. You remember VAIL, right? They’re the people who taught this car to park itself . Anyway, this was our first invitation to an event involving a major head of state, so after we got through the Secret Service checkpoints and the camera sniffing dogs, we got to see the dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting by Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany:
Audi drops more photos and info on "Shelley", the autonomous TT-S. Autonomous Audi TT-S "Shelley" - Click above for high-res image gallery We first heard about the latest autonomous driving project from Stanford University and the Volkswagen Group a couple of weeks ago.
Audi has released some more information on the car, a TT-S coupe that, like its predecessors, Stanley and Junior, has a name: Shelley. Shelley's being developed to climb Colorado's Pikes Peak without any driver intervention during the annual hill climb next July. (Stanley and Junior were created for the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge.) Audi and Stanford's Dynamics Design Lab have managed to dramatically reduce the size of the equipment necessary for the car and its control system to detect the surroundings and respond accordingly.
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