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Written by Stephen Dobie
Many weird and wonderful things happened at this year"s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but one that captured everyone"s attention a little more than others was the Siemens Ford Mustang. While it"s a classic 1965 Stang on the outside, it"s a self-driving car beneath. And if the social media reaction after its first runs up the hill was anything to go by, not an especially good self-driving car. It weaved around. It skimmed the grass. At one point it nudged itself into a hay bale, before its driver steered it back onto the straight and (very) narrow. Yes, there was still an engineer behind the wheel, just in case. Good job, it seems. All the while, the autonomous Roborace car blitzed its way up the hill at seemingly twice the speed and with 100 per cent less driver on board. I watched it freakishly buzz past Goodwood House mere minutes before heading over for my passenger ride in the Mustang, its stinging online criticism buzzing through my head.
Date written: 16 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12580
Many weird and wonderful things happened at this year"s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but one that captured everyone"s attention a little more than others was the Siemens Ford Mustang. While it"s a classic 1965 Stang on the outside, it"s a self-driving car beneath. And if the social media reaction after its first runs up the hill was anything to go by, not an especially good self-driving car. It weaved around. It skimmed the grass. At one point it nudged itself into a hay bale, before its driver steered it back onto the straight and (very) narrow. Yes, there was still an engineer behind the wheel, just in case. Good job, it seems. All the while, the autonomous Roborace car blitzed its way up the hill at seemingly twice the speed and with 100 per cent less driver on board. I watched it freakishly buzz past Goodwood House mere minutes before heading over for my passenger ride in the Mustang, its stinging online criticism buzzing through my head.
Date written: 16 Jul 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 12580
