Watch an Audi RS7 Drive Itself About a Track at 150 MPH—with Nobody Inside

The thought of a driverless vehicle hurtling itself about a track at 150 mph sounds like a bizarre racing disaster: What happened to the driver? But just prior to the DTM season finale at Hockenheim, Audi is generating it come about, sending an autonomous RS7 sports sedan careening around the track with nary a human aboard. And you can watch the robotic hot laps appropriate here.

For a preview of the action, check out Audi’s test laps and background videos below. There’s nothing at all far more eerie to a auto enthusiast than an empty pile of higher-functionality metal clipping apexes and barreling down straightaways at high velocity. Truth be told, this robo-Audi almost certainly puts down a faster lap time about Hockenheim than nonprofessional human drivers could ever hope to accomplish.

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The main event is scheduled for Sunday, October 19 at 6:45 a.m. Eastern. Generations from now, historians will refer to that date and time as the dawn of the robot uprising. Watch the stream from Hockenheim here:

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Watch an Audi RS7 Drive Itself About a Track at 150 MPH—with Nobody Inside

Nobody Invited Lemmy? McCall’s Motorworks Kicks off Monterey Automobile Week

August 14, 2014 at 7:17 pm by Davey G. Johnson | Photography by Davey G. Johnson

Even though the greatest action on the Monterey Peninsula begins Friday with the Quail, Gordon McCall’s Motorworks occasion at the Monterey Jet Center is the conventional kickoff to the cavalcade of automotive hedonism set to consume the south finish of Monterey Bay this week.

A fest for these with fistfuls of dollars and diamonds, McCall’s event occupies 2 hangars packed with luxury goods, snacks, and cars, as well as a sizable slab of adjacent tarmac with automobiles scattered amongst numerous types of aircraft.

A quick meander about the grounds and through the hangars revealed a fresh retro-fab Porsche 964 from Rob Dickinson’s Singer Vehicle Style a low, lean 906—the last of Porsche’s roadgoing sports racers a pair of Paganis and classics ranging from the F40-predecessor Ferrari 288GTO Evoluzione to a Toyota 2000GT.

This year’s event was heavy on the sporting finish of luxury life style automobiles, with nothing at all so raucously outlandish as Fatty Arbuckle’s mad, purple 1919 Pierce-Arrow, a auto that produced a displaying during the 2012 occasion. We had been, nonetheless, treated to the jet whine of the ex–Graham Hill Lotus 56, the machine that led turbines to be legislated off the grid at Indianapolis in 1968.

The dragstrip-focused Ford Thunderbolt, a factory special Fairlane with lightweight body components and a big-block 427 wedged amongst its fiberglass fenders, was a hoot to see among all the rarefied European machinery, as was the Grim Reaper, a P-51D Mustang parked nearby.

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Perhaps the most surprising vehicle at the Jet Center this year was Toyota’s FT-1 notion. Resplendent in subdued gray, rather than the searing red of its Detroit reveal, the most recent iteration of the curvaceous Toyota looked definitely comfortable among seemingly headier new iron. Which signifies 1 of 2 issues: either Toyota is producing up for lost mojo or contemporary supercars are significantly less aesthetically stimulating than their raw-boned forebears. We suspect both are at play. Additional investigation is required. Luckily, the week’s just begun.

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Nobody Invited Lemmy? McCall’s Motorworks Kicks off Monterey Automobile Week