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07-16-2016, 07:31 PM
I thought the Tesla crash might derail self-driving cars. Then I took a ride in one
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — I'm sitting in the passenger seat of a modified Audi A7 going about 50 mph on a Washington freeway when the driver — an Audi engineer — takes his hands off the wheel. A strip of sky-blue LEDs just beneath the windshield lights up, the dashboard behind the steering wheel indicates the car is in "piloted" mode, and the steering wheel recedes slightly.
**w, and for the next five minutes or so, the car's doing the driving.
SEE ALSO: What the fatal Tesla Autopilot crash means for driverless cars (http://mashable.com/2016/07/01/tesla-autopilot-crash-analysis/)
As we pass an interchange, a sedan and an SUV move to merge into our lane. The Audi, nicknamed "Jack," slows down on its own, giving the other cars e**ugh room to merge safely. All the while the Audi engineer, Kaushik, doesn't lift a finger — or a toe for that matter — to touch the wheel or the pedals. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/audi-self-driving-a7/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — I'm sitting in the passenger seat of a modified Audi A7 going about 50 mph on a Washington freeway when the driver — an Audi engineer — takes his hands off the wheel. A strip of sky-blue LEDs just beneath the windshield lights up, the dashboard behind the steering wheel indicates the car is in "piloted" mode, and the steering wheel recedes slightly.
**w, and for the next five minutes or so, the car's doing the driving.
SEE ALSO: What the fatal Tesla Autopilot crash means for driverless cars (http://mashable.com/2016/07/01/tesla-autopilot-crash-analysis/)
As we pass an interchange, a sedan and an SUV move to merge into our lane. The Audi, nicknamed "Jack," slows down on its own, giving the other cars e**ugh room to merge safely. All the while the Audi engineer, Kaushik, doesn't lift a finger — or a toe for that matter — to touch the wheel or the pedals. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/audi-self-driving-a7/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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