Two Audi (NSU) RS7 performance sedans raced around a track in northern Germany. The car without a driver won this matchup by five seconds.
In its effort to bring autonomous-driving technology to the streets,Volkswagen AG (VOW)’s Audi is testing unmanned vehicles at speeds as fast as 305 kilometers (190 miles) per hour. In these experiments, the car decides for itself the best way to take the corners in its race against human drivers. The map the car gets “just contains the left and right boundaries of the track,” Peter Bergmiller, an Audi technician, said yesterday during a test on a track in Oschersleben (about 120 miles west of Berlin) with a vehicle named Bobby. “The car starts to think about it and generates its optimal line.”
Automakers from Mercedes-Benz to Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA) are developing systems to ease the strain of driving by letting cars park themselves and even take over the wheel in stop-and-go traffic.
By showing that computers are able to push cars to their limits on race tracks, Audi is aiming to convince regulators that the technology can be safe in the real world.
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