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What Would Google Do (If It Built A Car)?

Posted by admin on July 18th, 2009 at 20:29
Category: Auto News | 0 Comment |

"What would Google do?" is not only a meme in media theory but the title of a Jeff Jarvis book, where he uses the question as shorthand for looking at old problems in new ways.

Now Mike and Maaike, the pair of designers who created Google's G1 phone (the first based on its Android software), have taken a crack at another old problem: What should the car of the future look like?

Their answer is something like a glass-walled seating area, electrically