Apr 09
Stanford University researchers are developing in-car technology that could improve driver safety, and in extreme cases, even allow regular cars to drive on their own.
The latest example is a GPS-equipped Audi TTS coupe, dubbed Shelley after Michelle Mouton, the first woman to win at Pikes Peak. The self-driving Audi will soon face the 4,721-foot high, 12.4-mile International Hill Climb–quite a big jump from the modest automatic parallel parking systems available today, as the Associated Press reports.
“What we’re trying to do is create an autonomous race car, an autonomous rally car, so a car that can drive itself up to the very limits of handling,” said Christian Gerdes, a Stanford engineering professor and director of Standford’s Center for Automotive Research, in the report.
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