TECHNOLOGY
Rules put brakes on Audi’s autonomous tech
Michael Taylor experienced the self-driving technology of the new Audi A8, but the world is not ready for it, yet
Load up the infotainment with movies and have the laptop at the ready so you can work while you drive because level 3 self-driving cars are about to land with Audi’s A8. Well, parts of them are, anyway. Audi has made a huge marketing push around its next-generation A8 limousine being the first car to bring full level 3 autonomous driving into production. Level 3 means drivers no longer have to be in control of the car, allowing them to do almost anything else while the car negotiates traffic by itself. After a good look in and around the tech in a pre-production version of the A8, we can confirm that Audi’s claims are true. Sort of. And not true, sort of, too. Bear with us because this tale of Audi’s Traffic Jam Pilot is about to get complicated. Given the difficulties in engineering self-driving cars, it’s probably as it should be. Using the level 3 capability of the A8 will depend entirely on negotiations being conducted with a host of countries in Geneva, but not the most importa...
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