Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The Data Mining "Smart Car"

Listed below is a link to an article I found from Geo: International Magazine.

http://www.geoconnexion.com/geo_news_article/The-Data-Mining-Car-of-the-Future/3577

The article introduces the development of a data mining "smart car" whose purpose is to monitor drivers' emotions, parking, and driving habits. The research team behind this program is both Volkswagen and Stanford University at the new Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL) on Stanfords' campus. The range of the new smart cars capabilities will range from reporting bad driving habits to insurance companies, calming frustrated drivers down, to reccomending a good restaurant. It will be interesting to see how such interesting ideas and technologies will develop into the automobiles of the future.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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