If you are a driver like me, who hates driving on a highway and hates having to pay attention to the road for hours, the Audi car is a big improvement, though not a driverless solution. Unlike the Google car, which lacks even a steering wheel, the Audi car requires someone to drive on local streets and thoroughfares, but allows for driverless travel on highways. The Audi car uses existing technology, packaging it, perhaps, for a sooner commercial debut than purely autonomous vehicles.
The video is well worth a few minutes to watch.
I am pretty sure that the Audi car requires the driver to drive and accelerate onto the highway and to exit the highway, allowing for a distracted trip once one is settled on the high-speed road, but not doing anything for those unable or unwilling to drive entirely. I do not know whether the car includes some kind of alert to tell the driver when one's highway exit is approaching.
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