09 10 201538 You would expect this report to start with adjectives like in credible or fascinating and phrases pregnant with impor tance such as the start of a new age But nothing of the sort flows from my fingers ever since my two thumbs pressed down on the two small buttons on the steering wheel of an Audi A7 Piloted Driving It all feels so natural so automatic In this world of unmatched speed where the next generation of com puter chips leaves no stone standing where disabled people soon will walk again glasses recommend restaurants and ro bots take over the care of the sick it just seems so completely normal that a car might no longer need a driver Defying history Consider just 10 years ago We can still hear the echoes of laugh ter about instrument filled vehicles in the Mojave Desert They stalled out or collided when no one was at the wheel Then five years ago a professor of engineering from Parma sent two small vans more than 13 000 km to the Shanghai Motor Show under their own control In the fall of 2010 Alberto Broggi said The technical prerequisites are already there Now we only need to keep testing testing and testing The pioneer of self piloted ve hicles predicted that it would take the technology at most five years to advance to freeway driving Broggi was wrong It was only four and one half Building trust It is now 2015 and a turquoise band of light runs along the low er window frame of an Audi A7 Sportback and signals the hu man being that it is time to let go The engineers have spent a lot of time building trust The system doesn t immediately back off when the doubter briefly touches the wheel On a busy Fri day afternoon on Germany s A9 autobahn the powerful sedan is securely wedged in behind a convoy of trucks in the right lane It s easy to override the system and switch to the middle STORY 02 2015 52 Produkte Fahrbericht 2 1 Modell Audi A7 Piloted Driving Komponenten Antennen für Datenaustausch Differenzial GPS 3D Kamerasystem vorn mit Öffnungswinkel von 103 Grad horizontal 3D Kamerasystem hinten mit Öffnungswinkel von 103 Grad horizontal Steuergerät zur Regelung der Fahrdynamik Bildverarbeitungs und Überwachungssystem Zentrale Sensoreinheit Eine halbe Stunde Zukunft Fo to s A ud i The Audi A7 Piloted Driving Audi s test car which is still a concept drives itself which means that a human driver has his hands free to do other things

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