Sometime around 2006 or 2007, Top Gear featured a BMW 330i that was programmed to go driverless around a track and did so with Clarkson sitting in the drivers seat but not touching the wheel...looked pretty fast from what I recall (and Clarkson was scared s&itless!). Couldn't find the video due to BBC copyright but was actually used as a BMW track trainer.
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Originally Posted by swamp2
This is a failed argument ad absurdum. Although google appears to have made good progress on a fully automatic drive car, it absolutely hasn't made one that can even keep up a novice pace on the twisty back canyon roads or at the track. Of course we can easily imagine a thought experiment where they did have one. No, everything fully automated would surely not be fun. That does not imply in any way that DCTs aren't quite a bit of fun. Of course, cars that can do either, drive conservative or quickly on a track would be a useful feature for some people some of the time.
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