http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...irst-time.html

What do you Thunderhill drivers have to say?? Never been to the track myself and I don't see a lap time mentioned in the article.

 

Very impressive, Stanford. I am, however, troubled by the reference near the end of the text to the perceived "need for societal discussions" regarding human decision-making. The whole Google-driven (no pun) program to create driverless cars is, I believe, disingenuous. Vehicles without INDEPENDENT drivers are not cars. They are just a new kind of city bus. Google is promoting the "driverless car" as a huge safety improvement, to protect us from the annual horror of 44,000 deaths in automobile accidents nationwide. Divide 44,000 by the estimated U.S. population of 320 million, and you'll get:.001375. Less than two one-thousandths of one per cent. Not exactly non-stop carnage.

Why are some of our best and brightest working so hard to take away so much of our personal freedom? How many of us are really willing to trade freedom of movement for a new (and ruinously expensive) form of public transportation?

How can the end result of this mean Better?

 

Dave Vodden is quite quick and have won many SCCA Championships in his Spec Miata...I've known him and seen him drive for 25+ years...

If he was only beaten by .04 seconds against the Audi TT, he must have been booking on that Miata...

If he was driving the same TT, then the computer is more consistant and we 'humans' as race drivers do make mistakes, where a computer will drive the lap the same every lap...

You see this happen in the pro races all the time...a close race with no one changing positions from Start to Finish...same gap through out the race and only a slight mistake gives the chaser a chance to pass...

In the case of Vodden, one opps! Computer TT non!

 

I am glad I am towards the end of life than the beginning part of it :-)