In Somerville, Massachusetts, Audi is working in partnership with the city and the Federal Realty Investment Trust, a developer, to build the infrastructure to test two new technologies, Car-to-X technologies and automated parking.
Over the past few weeks we have been exposed to endless news about the Volkswagen group's emissions scandal. As dark as that tale has been, Audi, the luxury brand of the VW group, has been working on a project to help cities. It’s called Urban Future Initiative and tries to find solutions to cities’ unique mobility problems.
Intelligent parking space management in Assembly Row from THE AUDI URBAN FUTURE INITIATIVE on Vimeo.
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