{"id":80698,"date":"2018-07-16T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/watch-a-self-driving-car-complete-goodwoods-legendary-hill-climb"},"modified":"2018-07-16T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T21:23:55","slug":"watch-a-self-driving-car-complete-goodwoods-legendary-hill-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/watch-a-self-driving-car-complete-goodwoods-legendary-hill-climb","title":{"rendered":"Watch a self-driving car complete Goodwood\u2019s legendary hill climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QtVbch-02Fs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Want a hint of how the automotive zeitgeist is changing? You only need to look at the just-ended Goodwood Festival of Speed. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/05\/14\/roborace-self-driving-car-versus-human\/\">Roborace<\/a> has carved out a small niche in history with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QtVbch-02Fs\">the first<\/a> self-driving vehicle to successfully complete Goodwood\u2019s famous hill climb, where vehicles have to tackle a gradual 300-foot ascent that includes narrow hay- and brick-lined passages. It wasn\u2019t a flat-out assault, but the attempt (which was preceded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b6OHDlSnSo8\">practice run<\/a>) went off without a hitch \u2014 which you can\u2019t say for the other autonomous contender at the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Siemens had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2018\/07\/12\/autonomous-mustang-goodwood-video\/\">prepared<\/a> an autonomous Ford Mustang that carried none other than the festival\u2019s founder, the Duke of Richmond, through the run. Technically, it did complete the run \u2014 but only with help from a safety driver, who had to repeatedly take over as the modified coupe threatened to plow into hay bales. This came despite Siemens\u2019 team having 3D-mapped the course and plotted the route in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Human drivers don\u2019t have anything to worry about yet in either case. The Roborace vehicle was not only cautious, but tended to make constant corrections that are clearly visible in the video below. Even so, it\u2019s good to know that a completely driverless race car isn\u2019t intimidated by an elevation change. We just can\u2019t help but imagine Goodwood guests feeling nervous \u2014 the festival might have less reason to exist if many future cars won\u2019t need a human pilot.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/15\/roborace-completes-goodwood-hill-climb\/?sr_source=Facebook\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/07\/15\/roborace-completes-goodw...e=Facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want a hint of how the automotive zeitgeist is changing? You only need to look at the just-ended Goodwood Festival of Speed. Roborace has carved out a small niche in history with the first self-driving vehicle to successfully complete Goodwood\u2019s famous hill climb, where vehicles have to tackle a gradual 300-foot ascent that includes narrow [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}