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Article: United States : VW Lifts a $5.75 Million VAIL at Stanford.
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- October 27, 2009
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Byline: shiv03
Volkswagen and Stanford University go way back, having collaborated on two cool autonomous cars for DARPA, and now they ve gone in together on a laboratory where researchers and students will develop technology they say will lead to safer, greener cars.
The German automaker, through Volkswagen Group of America, is investing $5.75 million in the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory to spur the creation of new automotive tech. Along with VW s Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, VAIL gives VW the largest Silicon Valley research presence of any automaker.
This collaboration can draw on a long-standing relationship ...