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# Audi Wants to Deliver Amazon Packages to Your Car

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## Sam Frizell


Apr 23, 2015 12:46 PM UTC

by 

[Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/)


## Sam Frizell


Apr 23, 2015 12:46 PM UTC

Is it a car, or a mobile mailbox? One car manufacturer wants to make it both.

The German carmaker Audi said Wednesday it will begin testing a delivery system in Munich that will allow people to order products from Amazon and have them delivered to the trunk of their car.

The idea is to make it easy for people to receive packages when they’re not at home.

An Audi spokesman told the [New York _Times_ ](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/business/international/audi-to-test-plan-to-deliver-amazon-packages-to-drivers-trunks.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=19&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F04%2F23%2Fbusiness%2Finternational%2Faudi-to-test-plan-to-deliver-amazon-packages-to-drivers-trunks.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&%5Fr=0)that the pilot project would be the first auto delivery system involving an online retailer. Volvo has already tested package delivery to cars and will roll out the service soon in Sweden.

The Audi service would involve the German package delivery company DHL, who would send a delivery worker to a GPS-tracked car and open the trunk using a one-time, temporary-use code and deposit a package. The technology would have to be installed in your car, and would come with all new vehicles.

\[[_NYT_](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/business/international/audi-to-test-plan-to-deliver-amazon-packages-to-drivers-trunks.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=none&state=standard&contentPlacement=19&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F04%2F23%2Fbusiness%2Finternational%2Faudi-to-test-plan-to-deliver-amazon-packages-to-drivers-trunks.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&%5Fr=0)\]

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