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Old 11-02-2018, 12:37 PM
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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news...-plan-10893106

Audi has been developing autonomous technology for VW, Audi and Porsche. It built the A8, a car with advanced self-driving features, but its efforts for a fully autonomous car have fallen behind rival companies like Alphabet Inc's Waymo .
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Old 11-03-2018, 12:55 AM
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It makes sense to save money of these incredibly complex technologies and saving on duplicate effort

Talking of costs of fully electric cars and how high they are, that's why the manufacturers are pumping money into Hydrogen fuel cell tech. We don't have many hydrogen fuel stations in the UK, but there are some at least.

With the alleged BMW & Audi potential programs for LMP1 endurance racing with hydrogen in the 2024 (ish) rule set, watch this space. H-Tron is coming.
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