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Some updates on the Stanford University project which Volkswagen is involved with.  You remember that project, right?  I wrote about it here.  Anyway, they’ve had some progress on the project and it seems the car can now do slide parking like a badass.  We’ve seen KITT done it.  Now we’re seeing KITT’s coming.  I won’t be surprised if someday somebody will bring all this separately developed technologies and put them all into one car.  I’m hoping it will be a BMW.  :D

Sources:  Stanford Robot Car Capable of Slide Parking, Stanford’s Robot Car Slides into Parking Spot Like a Badass (video)

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Just finished watching Iron Man 2 and re-watched Iron Man 1.  Woohoo!!!  Iron Man rocks!  Great movie!  Lots of action and lots of Iron Man.  Love Pepper Pots and Natalie Rushman/Natasha Romanoff.

But story aside, I couldn’t help but think about Tony Stark’s comment to Senator Stern.  “The Iron Man suit isn’t a weapon, it’s a prosthesis.”  It’s very interesting to note that there’s a Japanese company by the name of Cyberdyne Systems that manufactures the HAL-5 “Iron Man” suit to help people and there’s also another similar suit made to help the paraplegics walk again.  So in a way, his statement corroborates the reality of such technology.

Another interesting thing I noticed, and this is in no way truth, just an observation after having read the blog posts below, is the similarity of the story to the current tech wars.  A few weeks ago Apple sued HTC for patent infringement and soon after Google stepped up behind HTC to lend support.  Then Microsoft comes in to lend its support to HTC, as well.  The imagery is a little too similar to Iron Man 2′s storyline. (a few spoilers)

Justin Hammer goes after Tony Stark.  Whiplash attacks Iron Man.  Hammer allies with Whiplash.  Iron Man fights off the Hammer/Whiplash combo.  Then comes SHIELD to help Iron Man’s fight by going after the people behind the drones.  Then lastly enter War Machine, helping Iron Man defeat Whiplash.  Pepper, of course, brought down Hammer.

Interesting coincidence?  Or was it by design?  Lest my maternity ward accuse me of thinking too much over 5 bottles of beer, I will end this post now and leave you with your thoughts.  If you care to share yours, the comment form is open below.  Fire away!   :D

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I talked about the self-driving car that Audi was making before.  It seems that Audi’s parent company, Volkswagen, also has their own similar project.  This one involves the car parking itself.  Wonderful.

Volkswagen has teamed up with Stanford University for this project and will definitely be worth tracking.  In fact, if these separate projects for automating cars and driving become reality, I don’t see a need to teach my kids how to drive anymore.  The skill will be obsolete.  Then again… maybe not.  What do you think?

source:  Autoblog

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