In what may go down among the least exciting American road trips in recorded history—understand we’re not talking about the feat itself—a team of six Delphi engineers completed the first cross-country trek in an autonomous car.
-Indeed, the nine-day, 3400-mile trip from San Francisco to New York City with the car driving “99 percent” of the time has our nerd glands on overdrive. While Delphi took an extra day and arrived in Manhattan on Monday—just in time for the New York auto show—it was a successful adventure that generated more than three terabytes of data.
-The team’s Audi SQ5 chose a southern route that saw them travel to Phoenix, El Paso, Dallas, Jackson, Atlanta, and up through Washington, D.C., without any notable complications save for some nervous steering when passing semi-trucks and one time where the car refused to move around a construction zone. According to the Associated Press, other motorists gave the Delphi gang a “few hateful gestures” since the car never exceeded the posted speed limits.
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We can’t imagine any guy resisting the temptation to goose the SQ5’s supercharged 354-hp V-6. But in validating the harmonious operation of next-gen radar, lidar, camera, GPS, and software, Delphi has real-world proof as it shops the technology to new customers. A day after the crew hit NYC, Audi announced it would use Delphi’s all-in-one processor—known in the industry as “sensor fusion”—to handle every automated driving and active safety feature onboard their cars. Now these guys need to pull a Brock Yates and let ‘er rip in the opposite direction.
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