Audi Piloted driving concept at the Hockenheimring

[Wizzo]

Audi has done it, with help from Stanford University engineering students and the VW Electronics Research Lab (ERL) in Belmont, California. Ten years after the first running of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s DARPA Grand Challenge, a competition intended to spur development of robotic vehicles, a 560 HP Audi RS 7 lapped the Hockenheimring at high speeds—autonomously, flawlessly, without the slightest mishap. No human intervention. The RS 7 Piloted driving concept car drove a clean racing line at the home of the German Grand Prix—with full throttle on the straights, full braking before the corners, precise turn-in and fluid acceleration exiting the corners. Forces of over 1.3 g were reached during braking, and lateral acceleration in the corners was as high as 1.1 g. Speeds approached 140 mph on the straights, with a lap time just over two minutes!

[Scott]

    Time for a new series? 

[Wizzo]

Fancy being a passenger?