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Developments in the self-driving car world can sometimes be a bit dry: a million miles without an accident, a 10 percent increase in pedestrian detection range, and so on. But this research has both an interesting idea behind it and a surprisingly hands-on method of testing: pitting the vehicle against a real racing driver on a course.

This self-driving AI faced off against an champion racer (kind ...





VR headsets make me queasy. I’m not alone. It’s a common complaint about virtual reality content but this startup might have solved the problem in the most unlikely way. Holoride wants people to use VR in the backseat of the family sedan. My stomach is happy to report it works as advertised. Yesterday, after strapping […]

I used VR in a car going 90mph and didn’t ...



audi_e-tron_edit1 The Audi R8 e-tron is dead if a report from Car and Driver is to be believed. The production version of the car was unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Auto Show and apparently Audi produced less than 100 vehicles — which sported a $1.1 million window sticker each. When announced the e-tron seemed like a key part of Audi’s future. Built in the same vain of the R8, the e-tron sat on top… Read More

Audi axed its electric supercar, per report


Audi A7 piloted driving car concept. Audi’s upcoming four-door luxury electric car will have a 311-mile range, along with Level 4 self-driving features (essentially full autonomy, for those keeping track) and three separate electric motors, according to a new report from Autocar. The car is set to go head-to-head with the Model S, based on these new stats, and will likely be called the “A9 e-tron” when it goes… Read More

More details on Audi’s Tesla Model S competitor emerge



Audi A7 piloted driving car concept. Audi’s upcoming four-door luxury electric car will have a 311-mile range, along with Level 4 self-driving features (essentially full autonomy, for those keeping track) and three separate electric motors, according to a new report from Autocar. The car is set to go head-to-head with the Model S, based on these new stats, and will likely be called the “A9 e-tron” when it goes… Read More

More details on Audi’s Tesla Model S competitor emerge


PTS lunar rover Quick: you can send 20 gigabytes of data to the moon. What’s it going to be? Time’s up! Wikipedia? What a coincidence — that’s what the Part-Time Scientists, a team working on a homegrown lunar rover for Google’s Lunar XPRIZE, decided too! And they’re really planning to do bring Wikipedia to the Moon. Read More

To the Moon! Lunar XPRIZE team looks to send Wikipedia ...