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On a related note, have you seen the episode of Top Gear where Jeremy Clarkson takes the new top-end Mercedes full speed into a roundabout to see if it brakes itself properly to avoid the car in front? (It did, but there was much grimacing on Clarkson's face as he kept his foot hovering above the brake pedal "just in case".)


Wait until you see last weeks episode then. BMW bring along a car with fully automatic controls, you drive it round a track once so it can learn the line and then it can lap the track itself.

The car looks perfectly normal, no add ons in the cabin (no doubt thanks to the electric steering racks the BMWs have now).

So the put Clarkson in it and had the car lap the Top Gear track at full speed.


Oh cool.. so that's from a (very) recent episode, then? We just watched that here two nights ago from some online video site (youtube, or a taiwanese one perhaps). Good fun.

The clip we saw cut off just as the lap ended -- any idea what the final time was, and where/if they placed it on to the board ??

Cheers