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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. 

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

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