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Google and NASCAR Team Up to Pull April Fool’s Day Prank

Kristin Watt — On Sun­day, April 1, 2012, on the main page for the pop­u­lar Google search engine, the orga­ni­za­tion was announc­ing a new part­ner­ship with NASCAR. For those who have been a fan of Google for the past few years, this was obvi­ously one of the annual April Fool’s Day gags. Each year, Google tries to go all out to make up absurd head­lines or prod­ucts that are almost, but not quite, believ­able. Among many dif­fer­ent ones over the years, one of my favorites was “Google Trans­late for Ani­mals,” which was described as exactly what it sounds like. It was a pro­gram that was sup­posed to trans­late ani­mal sounds into under­stand­able languages.

This year the main gag was that Google’s self-driving car would be a key ele­ment for the new Google NASCAR team. The graphic depicted a NASCAR dri­ver behind the wheel with his hands up to demon­strate that the car had piloted itself through a maze of cones. There was even an option to vote on the paint scheme for the new car. There were five choices includ­ing a youtube.com paint scheme and an Android paint scheme.

The idea is an intrigu­ing one for sure. It would reduce the event to being a mechan­i­cal com­pe­ti­tion. The main com­pe­ti­tion would be who could build the fastest car and who could ensure that the car would be in tact by the end of the race. Though it is inter­est­ing, it would not be fea­si­ble with the cur­rent NASCAR orga­ni­za­tion. With no dri­vers needed, there would be a whole new set of safety risks and ben­e­fits but the whole sys­tem would need to be changed.

It was a cool joke. Obvi­ously, it was false but per­haps to some­one who didn’t real­ize what day it was, or had no idea how NASCAR worked, it would have caused a brief pause. It is a neat idea and it would be awe­some for a high pro­file brand such as Google to get involved with NASCAR. It was some nice, appar­ently free, pub­lic­ity for a sport that is cur­rently grow­ing. It would be great if the extra pub­lic­ity led to extra view­ers for the upcom­ing race.

Kristin Watt has been a NASCAR Win­ston Cup, now Sprint Cup, fan for as long as she can remem­ber start­ing way back when she was a lit­tle girl and her mother would sit on the couch with her every Sun­day dur­ing the sea­son to watch the races. Back then, they were fans of Bill Elliott and new­comer Davey Allison.

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