Although April 1 is true across the nook, the RooBadge is as actual because it will get. While fashionable automotive badges incorporate all kinds of radars and sensors, this Volkswagen emblem is completely different. It has built-in directional audio system that emit a rigorously chosen beam of sound to maintain kangaroos away. It serves as an audio-based deterrent and it is being developed for all automobiles, not simply VWs.

As you might need guess, the RooBadge (“Roo” is the shortened type of “kangaroo” in Australian English) has been developed Down Under. VW joined forces with kangaroo behaviorists from the University of Melbourne to study extra concerning the cute mammal belonging to the marsupial household. Australian wildlife rescue group Wires is lending a serving to hand by offering real-time information about the place kangaroos are situated all through the continent.