If you’re someone who verges on a meltdown after you miss the delivery of a package you’ve been waiting all day for, then Audi might have a solution for you. That is, if you’re OK with strangers opening the trunk of your car.
Audi announced Wednesday it has teamed with DHL and Amazon on a pilot program beginning next month in Munich to ship parcels directly to the trunk of your car.
An owner would agree to have his or her car tracked by the service, according to the German automaker, and a DHL worker would receive a temporary electronic code to open the trunk and deliver the package through Audi Connect service in the vehicle. The code is disabled once the trunk is closed again. Audi is working to make a car a shipping address, the idea being to allow owners to send and receive mail from the car.
Last year, Volvo announced it was working on a remote delivery service where parcels and even food could be delivered to your car.
It’s a slightly creepy but possibly convenient idea and I’d be interested to see it work in the real world. But it probably makes ordering stuff from Amazon far too easy now.
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