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Phone call from Prof. Barrat (sp?)

Present: Pietro, Richard

# Intro
#* Proposal sparked some interest; wanted to know what Daimler Chrysler would have to do to be a sponsor
# Background (Pietro)
#* DGC background
#* Teaching/research context
#* Would like instrumented cars.  Thought of Daimler Chrysler and Toyota.  Contacting them sequentially.
# Discussion
#* Q: What would the timing be?  A: DARPA had non-ideal timing.  We were thinking end of summer.
#* Originally thought that we organized the DGC
#* Pietro described what we imagined
#* Custom versus stock vehicles; consider fairly advanced cars
#* Would like to see urban environment: traffic lights, etc.  Structure like America's cup?
# Daimler Chrysler's interests
#* Has relatively little information from Dr. Flick.  Just two pager.
#* Q: do we want to do hardware research or software research?  Feels like for students doing software research is more interesting.  Hardware could be extremely expensive; does not seem that possible.
#* Don't have an A or B class vehicle in the US.  Would need to get back to Mercedes Benz USA to figure out they think about it.  Would need to talk to PR.
#* Giving a vehicle is not a problem.  How much support is required and how to support from Stuttgart is the question
# Next steps
#* Will talk to staff and get back to us
#* Pietro: Mettzler and Han.  Dickmanns
#* {{openaction|Pietro|Find out how much Volkswagen committed to Stanford}}
#* Will contact us in early May