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Audi RS7 Laps Hockenheimring At Race Pace, Without A Driver: Video

Unmanned fighter jets? Old news. Hell, there’s nothing for them to even collide with. (Okay, maybe the ground. And mountains. Other planes..? Let's move on.)  For our money, the real magic is in having your driverless sports car lap a ra


Unmanned fighter jets? Old news. Hell, there’s nothing for them to even collide with. (Okay, maybe the ground. And mountains. Other planes..? Let's move on.) 

For our money, the real magic is in having your driverless sports car lap a race track, at speed, without piling into the barriers.

That’s just what Audi has accomplished this week, sending 'Bobby', a heavily customised RS 7, around Germany’s Hockenheimring in just over two minutes.

That's about as quick as a racing driver could accomplish in the same car, Audi reckons.

Of course, Audi didn’t simply roll the big four-door coupe up to the gate, unclip its leash and say “off ya go, mate”. There’s more than a little bit of advanced preparation in a project like this.

The 412kW/700Nm RS 7 in question is what Audi calls a Piloted Driving concept, a rolling showcase of autonomous systems that utilise GPS and live camera inputs to orient the vehicle on the road - or track, in this case.

Audi says the project required “specially corrected GPS signals” are matched to a pre-defined course along the Hockenheimring, accurate down to just one centimetre.

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