BMW's autonomous car, or how we [Engadget] drifted into love with a robot

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BMW promised, under the banner of its ConnectedDrive platform, to demonstrate some autonomous driving at this years' CES, and wow did it deliver. Labeled as ActiveAssist, the technology describes both partially and highly automated driving and we were definitely out to sample the highly automated variety. Highly automated driving, as the name suggests means the car will essentially drive itself with you sitting as passenger "up to the car's dynamic limit", or as we discovered to about 80 MPH.

Source:http://www.engadget.com/2014/01/08/highly-automated-driving-bmw/

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The car originally has sensors sticking out but it followed a predefined course and was able to have it removed to make it look nicer and to show its really nice design. The drifting of the car in the video was pretty cool how it was done all by the robot. Even though this technology will become true not for at least 10 years, its still pretty cool how it can control the vehicle quickly at high speeds.

[brownninja97]

That paint job is pretty awesome.

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

Its a pretty scary future. me being a car enthusiast. (hopefully i will die before in a car accident...?) haha joking