Driverless Audi RS 7 at racing speeds at Hockenheim

[RewindTape]

I am impressed.
Lap starts at 14.10.

PS. Did a quick search and didn't see this posted yet.

 

[SVT Cobra GT]

That's incredible!

Bravo Audi.

 

[AudiMan2011]

That is one of the freakiest things I've seen.

Surely there should've been someone to take manual control in case of a failure, or were Audi that confident to send it round with no-one onboard?

 

[RewindTape]

That is one of the freakiest things I've seen.

Surely there should've been someone to take manual control in case of a failure, or were Audi that confident to send it round with no-one onboard?

It doesn't look like anybody was onboard, but I'm sure someone somewhere was standing with their finger on the Emergency Shutdown button.

 

[Legro]

Next step is to have a real race between self driving car and real racing driver. When that happens everything I'm good at is replaceable with computer.

 

[Dennisch]

Didn't BMW do this also a couple of years ago?

 

[Leggy1]

@Dennisch

 

[Slash]

Nope. Nope. Nope.

 

[Zenith]

Next step is to have a real race between self driving car and real racing driver. When that happens everything I'm good at is replaceable with computer.

Notice how drones are replacing fighter jets?

There's no reason why a remote controlled or self driving car wouldn't be faster than a human driven one, especially if the drone didn't have to deal with the packaging of a fleshy meat bag.

 

[Joel]

Nope. Nope. Nope.

What a silly reaction.

 

[Slash]

What a silly reaction.

I'm pretty much 100% against autonomous cars so it's not that far out.

 

[Joel]

I'm pretty much 100% against autonomous cars so it's not that far out.

This is what I meant was silly.

 

[Legro]

Notice how drones are replacing fighter jets?

There's no reason why a remote controlled or self driving car wouldn't be faster than a human driven one, especially if the drone didn't have to deal with the packaging of a fleshy meat bag.

True. I'm probably slower than GTPlanet server around Nürburgring.

 

[Slash]

This is what I meant was silly.

How is it silly? Driving is just going to end up being one more thing that's taken away from us.

 

[Joel]

How is it silly? Driving is just going to end up being one more thing that's taken away from us.

Because it's not. And it won't be until we're both dead.

What else has been "taken away" from us?

 

[Legro]

What else has been "taken away" from us?

Fox hunting, I think.

 

[Joel]

Ah yes. I forgot the autonomous fox hunting machines.

 

[Slash]

Because it's not.

That's not a reason.

And it won't be until we're both dead.

I suppose that's true as far as hot rodding and all that stuff goes, but I'm sure there will be a point that human and computer drivers are going to be coexisting on the road and I dislike that. I personally believe we are getting too far technologically advanced for our own good.

What else has been "taken away" from us?

Various rights and whatnot but that's for another thread. I don't wish to get into a detailed discussion regarding this.

 

[AudiMan2011]

While it might be freaky to some, I think this is one of the great automotive achievements that shows the progress of autonomous driving technology even since the BMW's appearance on Top Gear.

 

[Zenith]

How is it silly? Driving is just going to end up being one more thing that's taken away from us.

Yeah just how like nobody rides horses now that cars replaced them as transportation.

Oh wait...

 

[Joel]

That's not a reason.

It has about as much support as "They're going to take it away". I don't really know why the onus on me is to prove there isn't a plot to take away the right to drive from the people.

You typed

I personally believe we are getting too far technologically advanced for our own good.

into your computer which within seconds appeared to me in Europe after being transmitted through a undersea cable across the ocean. On this device, we can view footage of humanity creating a rocket capable of landing on the moon, over 50 years ago. After surviving your youth without catching smallpox, polio, whooping cough, measles, mumps, or diptheria due to vaccines, wearing clothes comprised of various synthetic fabrics, and growing up working on machines manufactured with precision due to automated assembly. You're safeguarded by the military of your country and their vast array of unmanned radar stations, satellites, and the threat of precision guided missiles dropped by unmanned drones, or through heavily automated aircraft capable of acquiring and firing on targets autonomously. Should you wish to buy a new part for a car, you'll go online and order it through an automated system which handles the world's banking.

You trust your communication, health, education, money, personal information (Facebook, GTPlanet) and security to various technologies and automated systems, yet sitting in traffic with automated cars is a line we shouldn't cross?

Various rights and whatnot but that's for another thread. I don't wish to get into a detailed discussion regarding this.

That doesn't really follow. Governments restricting rights doesn't have anything to do with private enterprises developing new technology.

That's why I think it's silly. I'm not trying to have a go at you but it's just every single thread about anything new in cars and it's just constant "NOPE" from people. That was the reaction that people used to horse drawn carriages had to cars themselves.

 

[JockeP22]

16:43
"Not one foot wrong"

I've listened to this guy commentate ADAC GT Masters and he is always over the top, frequently raising his voice
over nothing special at all.

 

[JockeP22]

 

[MatskiMonk]

Didn't BMW do this also a couple of years ago?

And here...

 

[Mikeybc]

Because it's not. And it won't be until we're both dead.

What else has been "taken away" from us?

A couple jobs have been lost here and there due to automation.

 

[Dennisch]

This won't replace race car drivers for the foreseeable future. This car, and the others posted already did their laps on a empty track. Now add moving obstacles all fighting for the fastest line and I can see a destruction derby happening.

 

[Liquid]

@Slash

Autonomous cars are, and will be, for people who don't care about driving and don't like cars. For people who see getting from A-B as a necessity. As @Zenith and others pointed out, that won't stop driving as a hobby, it might just become a bit more niche over time. And also as Zenith has pointed out, semi-autonomous vehicles (i.e. the ones we have now with internal rather than external/pilot power) have replaced horses and pedal power in many, many, many aspects but that hasn't stopped horse riding and cycling as hobbies.

You mustn't forget, car people are not at the top of car manufacturers priorities. We're the minority.

 

[Slash]

I understand that but I still feel like it's society being lazy.

 

[McLaren]

That remark always amuses me about new technology. "It's society being lazy". As if there's any sort of understanding of the time it takes to actually make something like this just to work correctly & then develop more advanced inputs.

 

[Liquid]

I understand that but I still feel like it's society being lazy.

Time and technology marches on. Laziness (or Luddite) is a really bad way to look at it.

[Insert literally any discussion about technology]

Sat Navs

A lazy way of flicking through an atlas or an A-Z. The pages are already there to look at, it's not that difficult.
See also: 16th century Europe, "Ooh, need a compass do you? Don't you know where north is?"

Microwaves

These have totally destroyed cooking as a hobby. It does it all for you. Nobody uses an oven and makes things from scratch any more.

Remote Controls

Get up and change the channel yourself, you lazy sod! That's why television sets have dials on them.

Washing Machines

You don't get the same clean from a bucket and strainer.

And while you may be thinking "Hm, but I don't like washing clothes and cooking. It's such a chore.", this is exactly how many people feel about driving and this is what an autonomous car would be for.

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Good job BMW and Audi. I'll concede, driverless trains and cars intimidate me because I am an irrational git but I can certainly appreciate the advancement and discovery in robotics. Well done.