dicktahoe

Audi RS 7 proves it needs no driver to go racing

John Simcox

You have obviously not looked at the Audiworld Homepage recently! Also here is an article from someone sitting in the passenger seat of the RS7 with no driver! A hot lap in the passenger seat of Audi's self-driving RS7 | Autocar

DB22

It appears that the future A8 is very similar to todays model but with the additional information from the laser scanner. This device provides the additional input to allow for a more comprehensive algorithm to accomplish the same as what is implied by todays model.

The RS7 video seems to heavily rely on a database of present terrain. Mapping the USA to the centimeter suggests a hard drive of significant proportions, mapping a racetrack, not so much.

mdkv5

Yeah self driving on a short, closed, fully mapped course to the millimeter is not exactly impressive by today's standards.
The demo they had of a car self driving in the city/highway was much more impressive.

dicktahoe

"Mapping the USA to the centimeter suggests a hard drive of significant proportions, mapping a racetrack, not so much." I recall a company that was digitally mapping the US. They went to IHOP, and bought a "generic pancake", digitized it, and compared it to their digitized map of the US to prove--Kansas is flatter than a pancake. ;-}