Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Audi's Self-Piloted Car Picks You Up


LAS VEGAS - Forget valet parking. The car of the future can find a spot for you and then pick you up.
And the future has driven to CES 2013. Audi's Connect car not only drives and parks itself but the iPhone is its key.
"Imagine you are at a shopping center and you want the car to pick you up. That's exactly what it will do," Annie Lien, Audi Senior Engineer, told ABC News.
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We witnessed it firsthand. At a demo at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Las Vegas, Audi set up a working demonstration of the technology. Press the Pickup button on the Audi app, and you can set the time at which you want the parked car to come pick you up. Tap the button again and it will turn on the ignition and come get you. No one in the driver's seat.
How does it work? Audi has been developing its own self-driving technology, which it prefers to call piloted parking or driving. (It

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