Self-Driving Audi Being Taught Manners

Audi has been teaching its robotic vehicles to drive more like humans in an effort to make them safer on the roads. The A7 sportback autonomous test vehicle — nicknamed Jack — drifts towards the road markings before signalling its intent to perform a lane-change manouevre.

The German car giant has found that this subtle movement is used by human drivers as an unconscious signal of intent before they even turn on the indicators. Audi’s driverless car also tends to give larger vehicles like trucks a wider berth when overtaking, much like human motorists. When another vehicle wants to merge into its lane, the vehicle either speeds up or slows down to let them in.

Daily Mail article here

 

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Muhammad Ali’s Blinged Out Mercedes-Benz 220S

The late Muhammad Ali was not a man who lived a quiet life, and a car of his was certainly a reflection of that. Ali once drove — and got driven around in, when he felt like it — a 1959 Mercedes-Benz 220S encrusted with hundreds of precious jewels and gold accents from bumper to bumper.

Fox News reports the car, the “Golden Angel Wing,” has more than 270 jewels in all, including diamonds. Its accents are a modest 23 karat, and gold adorns the headlamp assembly, grill, bumper, as well as all of the knobs and switches. It’s a four-speed manual with six cylinders under the hood, and the auction listing from 2014 lists Ali as owning it for about two years in the 1980s.

Jalopnik article here

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