Earlier this year, we spoke with Audi R&D chief Ulrich Hackenberg about the prospects and requirements for autonomous automobiles. At the time, he told us that he had defined 2 conditions that an autonomous vehicle need to be in a position to manage. One of them was obtaining a automobile from the left lane of a 3-lane autobahn to a secure quit by itself—important if, say, the driver suffers a heart attack. The other one particular intrigued us: The car demands to be more quickly on a racetrack than Hackenberg himself. Nota bene: Hackenberg is a talented race driver.
Audi might be closer to reaching the latter target than we thought. On October 19, a driverless RS7 will circle the Hockenheim racetrack “about as rapidly as with a specialist race driver” and “with millimeter precision,” Audi claims. The twin-turbo V-8 hatchback will attain up to 150 mph, and the company believes it will take just more than 2 minutes to lap the track. Testing has commenced, and the actual performance will take place at this season’s final DTM race.
We think that this type of autonomous driving could be exciting. “Officer, the automobile was doing it all by itself!” Now, how about autonomous drifting?
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