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| The Audi RS7 drives autonomously on the Hockenheimring on Sunday. |
Audi releases in Sunday's season finale of the German Touring Car Masters (DTM), a self-navigating RS7 with up to racing speed 240 km / h on the Hockenheim ring - and completely without driver. The Audi RS7 Concept Piloted Driving the VW subsidiary will provide the dynamic potential of a piloted driving cars to the test, as the manufacturer announced prior to the event.
The RS7 has a power output of 560 hp and a top speed of up to 305 km / h. On the car Gazette You can follow the live stream, as the journey of this technology demonstrator looks.
Audi sees itself as a driving force
"When the DTM race at Hockenheim, we show the fascination of this development. A lap time of just over two minutes and a lateral acceleration of up to 1.1 g speak for themselves, "said Audi's Chief Development Officer Ulrich Hackenberg. "With the technical solutions we piloted driving drive one of the major trends in the automotive world continues to progress," Hackenberg said. Audi sees himself in the field of highly automated driving as a driving force and in the leadership role, such as Audi CEO Rupert Stadler recently the car Gazette said.
The technology vehicle uses on Sunday for the orientation on the Hockenheimring specifically corrected GPS signals that work with centimeter accuracy. In parallel, 3D camera pictures with onboard stored image information is adjusted in real time, Audi said. The system in each of the countless frames examined after several hundred well-known characteristics, such as after development patterns behind the track, which then uses this as an additional location information. The vehicle control in the border area was a "prominent feature of the Audi RS 7 Piloted Driving Concept".
Targeted lap time of 2:10
This Sunday the autonomous driving Audi RS 7 will drive a "clean race line with full throttle on the straights, with full braking before a bend, with precise turn-and with perfect dose gas use at corner exit". Because the tests are to be expected with a top speed of 240 km / h and a lap time of 2:10 minutes.
How Audi operate other manufacturers such as BMW, Mercedes or Volvo to autonomously moving vehicles. Mercedes had, for example, last year a S-class autonomous in regular road a distance of over 100 kilometers of autonomous cover. Just such a travel profile is considered particularly challenging task because it is not like now held at the Hockenheimring in real conditions of the road and on a racetrack. Volvo currently has a handful of cars driving test as autonomous on the Gothenburg city motorway. End of 2017, then be 100 vehicles in this pilot project Drive Me go
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