Two Audi RS 7 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, the Volkswagen unit is testing unmanned vehicles at speeds as fast as 305kph (190 mph) 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 Monday during a test on a track in Oschersleben, west of Berlin, with a vehicle named Bobby. “The car starts to think about it and generates its optimal line.”
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