Audi's Self-Racing RS7 Prototype Attacks Sonoma Raceway With No Human Intervention - Car and Driver (blog)
Robby is a 2016 Audi RS7 that can drive itself—and drive itself hard. As the successor to Bobby, Audi’s original racetrack-circling autonomous RS7 , Robby has the edge in weight (it is 881 pounds lighter than Bobby), all the better to rip around at high speeds, shaming human drivers with its cold precision. As you can probably imagine, nobody wants self-driving technology if it means sacrificing their car’s trunk for a bunch of computers and such, so Audi’s ability to shrink these complex control systems down is nearly as critical as ensuring those... (Intended for traffic jams on throughways without traffic signals—the highway—the system will brake, steer, and accelerate all on its own in dense traffic. ) To be clear, it will not let owners nap whilst lapping racetracks, but we figure it’s okay if those owners decide to nickname their car Robby, Bobby, or Ricky Bobby. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
