At the Mobile World Congress, the chip maker company Qualcomm said that soon all Audi cars will be equipped with 3G modems and navigation systems, based on service Google Earth. The first model, which will receive advanced means of communication, will be a new generation of Audio A8 and the Audi A5 Cabriolet.

In addition, cars must be installed transmitters WiFi, which will distribute a signal, passed through a 3G-modem. Thus, according to the director for the development of wireless technologies and communications Kolshmidta Peter (Peter Kohlschmidt), «Audi strives to create a qualitatively new level of automation in the car.

Cars with 3G, WiFI and support for Google Earth should appear later this year.

Via Technology Today

Recently, the British tabloid The Sun published the news that a fan of using Google Earth, may have discovered Atlantis, the legendary island in the Atlantic Ocean, according to myth, down on the bottom as a result of the earthquake.

However predctavitel Google's haste to reassure vzbudorazhennye minds of young and not very antlantidoiskateley: «What we see – is simply a false image formed by the collection of information … Bathymetric data or data on the surface of the seabed, often collected by special vessel with sonar … By the way these boats are formed in the form now reflect these lines here. Yes, between the lines is not clear gaps, but it said only that we still know very little about the oceans and seas ».

It is a pity that it can not climb into a virtual immersion spetsapparat for themselves and explore the bottom:).