Google and VW working on GPS System

Google and Volkswagon are working together to develop navigation systems for VW cars. Not a bad marriage. Volkswagen AG and the search engine Google Inc are working together to develop a prototype navigation system for cars, Google founder Larry Page said at the Consumer Electonics Fair in Las Vegas, said Die Welt newspaper.

The aim is to integrate the Google application Google Earth, an electronic world map, into VW cars. Google software will allow single images from satellites and aerial photographs to be incorporated into a detailed visual navigation system able to zoom in on buildings. Aerial views are OK, but I want pictures of the actual building. This would certainly help in the situations where you are looking for a specific building or location - if you could pull up an actual picture of the actual business/building. I would assume that you won't be bringing along a few terabytes of information on your VW Jetta, so maybe this is being planned for high speed internet connections to the car?

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