Ahead Of the Curve? Self Driving Audi Caught Undergoing Testing

Agent009.

Honda incorporate the self driving in the Euro Accord maybe 4 years or longer. Only will it drive straight but it would turn in curves as well. So you might want to loose the "ahead of curve" title.

Oh in a honda no less.

Yes I did. Before you did.

Brembo,

In 2006 the Acura/Honda was barely able to move unassisted. In 2006 the VW Golf was running at high speeds on a track. Quite bit different in execution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Y1MX6WyLA

In 2006 lane keeping assist was already old technology for Honda and it was able to move unassisted on freeways, Honda HIDS system was released in PRODUCTION car in 2002 to assistance the driver at freeways:
"...LKAS (Lane-Keeping Assist System) identifies the vehicle lane based on the image captured by a C-MOS camera mounted in the front window, then the ECU calculates the amount of steering assist required to maintain the vehicle in its lane and the appropriate steering assistance is provided. The system operates at speeds of 65 km/h or higher, on straight roads or curves with a radius of 230 m or more, making it functional on most freeways. IHCC (vehicle speed and distance control system)..."
http://world.honda.com/news/2002/4021010.html
In 2003 Hondas were able to brake automatically to avoid crash:
http://world.honda.com/HDTV/news/2003-4030520a/

As for the cameras used to avoid accidents like they are testing in this new Audi, Lexus already uses stereo-cameras to avoid crash:
"The obstacle detection system reads information from both the shortwave radar at the front of the vehicle and the dual ’stereo camera’. The stereo camera that adopts a near-infrared radiation CCD is set up in the top of the fornt windscreen about 35cm apart. The near-infrared radiation CCD is irradiated from the near-infrared radiation projector long range beam and combined, they all project forward to the same area and can detect objects with an ‘image data process’. As a result, pedestrians etc. can be detected even at night."
http://www.7tune.com/lexus-ls460-pre-crash-safety-system/

Volvo also uses a camera:
"While the original system, introduced in the Volvo S80, is radar-based, Collision Warning with Auto Brake uses both radar and a camera to detect vehicles in front of the car. The long-range radar reaches 150 metres in front of the car while the camera range is 55 metres."
http://jalopnik.com/295647/volvo-introduces-radar+guided-collision-warning-auto-brake

Generally, as far as I know, the first system that is using camera to detect something on the road and take some action was used in Mitsubishi track:
http://www.jsae.or.jp/autotech/data_e/13-5e.html

Agent009,

I'm glad that I've provoked you enough to waste your time to find a rebuttal because you didn't have one ready. Why don't you search in the internet to see who was the first to have mass production hard top convertible.

It wasn't MB. It was the Mitsubishi 1994 - 1995 3000GT. Please enlighten how knowledge you are with google search.

it's been done for a while

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge

Good for Audi. Thinking ahead in todays technology.

give this car to my grandma. she cant drive at all. perfect!
should test it on a ford not an audi. too nice of a car to crash. ford?, who cares.

All the "ethusiasts" here should be loathing this new technology. Self-parking on that Lexus caused an outrage among those who preferred "parking themselves." To put the whole task of driving in the hands of a computer should be quite a ridiculous notion to any real "enthusiast."