Volkswagen and Google Develop Revolutionary Navigation System
Volkswagen and Google Develop Revolutionary Navigation System? Prototype with Google Earth generates photorealistic 3-dimensional images ? Online links provide more real-time data for the navigation system, making journey planning even easier13 March 2006Wolfsburg - Volkswagen and Google are working together to develop a revolutionary new navigation system. Together with the graphics card manufacturer nVidia, a revolutionary new navigation system is being developed in Volkswagen's Electronics Research Laboratory (ERL) in Palo Alto, California. This new system uses data from Google Earth to generate 3-dimensional images of the route. Moreover, the navigation system can gather online data to provide the driver with important real-time information, for example about the traffic situation or weather.