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Yesterday at the second annual CAR2CAR, a forum on, you guessed it, car-to-car communications, Audi revealed a future where its cars would play nice and talk to others. Specifically, the multi-ringed German brand showed off three examples where their system can talk to cars from other brands to receive warnings from approaching emergency vehicles, to emit data after a crash and to warn other vehicles of a potential collision. But that's just the car-to-car side. The really interesting stuff is on the infrastructure-to-car side. Audi was touting the results of a study experiment in Ingolstadt, where the timing of 46 traffic lights was optimized by equipping three with WLAN-based communications technology to facilitate communications with vehicles heading toward the lights. Calculations provided by the Technical University of Munich, a venture partner, suggest a 20% reduction in stops at traffic lights post-optimization. That's obviously good for those of us looking to save time,...
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Apparently the summer months over at the Audi Design offices are a bit slow, cause they're off designing stuff that doesn't even have wheels on it now. We're well aware of the voracious appetite Germans have for playing the game of "Footie," (try having a foosball table in the office) but Audi has taken that love a step further and applied their styling language to the classic game. The result is a table as smooth as a new Audi TT and as imaginary as a lightweight German automobile. galleryPost('audifoos', 3, 'Can Anyone Explain Why This Exists'); At this point there are no plans to put this baby into Audi-branded production. However, if it ever comes to pass, we're sure it'll be a lot heavier than we thought, come with stitched leather over brushed aluminum ball pockets, have ridiculously complicated and yet flimsy drink holders, and all the press photos will have the little men painted silver. [ Carscoop ]
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Did you ever notice how big badges on the front of cars are getting these days? Have you ever wondered whether it's out of a need for automakers to "compensate" for their prospective buyers lack of size? We did. So, trusty ruler in hand, we hit the dealer lots at the mega-motor-mall up the street to find out whether size really does matter and to answer the important question: Which automaker has the biggest badges, and do they correspond to the bulge in the pants of the male members of the target buying demographic? Let's find out. For starters, we've set up some ground rules: 1) Measurements are taken across the major axis of the badge vertically or horizontally, none of that diagonal baloney. 2) Script logos where not considered. Spreading letters out is too easy. So sorry Hummer, Jeep, GMC, Land Rover and others with the name spelled out in long-hand, get a real badge. 3) Only vehicles on the dealer lot of the Troy Motor Mall in Troy, MI where considered. Thus...
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Though we sarcastically joke about the self-proclaimed precision of German car makers, it turns out they actually have some pretty impressive facilities. The guys at Oobject took a closer look at the big, shiny factories of ze Germans, and came up with a top ten list of the most impressive videos of Deutschland's most futuristic-looking manufacturing centers in action. [ oobject ]
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( Thanks for the tip Zandr )
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