Over the past two weeks, we’ve helped our client Volkswagen with the celebration of VAIL – the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Laboratory – on the Stanford University campus. (VW has the largest presence in Silicon Valley of any automaker and clearly is an industry leader in automotive innovation and technology. Need some proof? Check out Volkswagen’s ERL.)

Junior, the driverless Passat, waits for pedestrians

Part of the work included talking about super-cool demonstrations of autonomous cars – cars that drive themselves. This morning, we sent out photos of “Junior,” the famous driverless VW Passat developed jointly by VW and Stanford. That prompted this response from a reporter at The Wall Street Journal:

“Thanks for the information. The Highway Patrol has been calling mine ‘the driverless Passat’ for years.”