Losing traction while driving at high speed is generally very bad news. Scientists from the Toyota Research Institute and Stanford University have developed a pair of self-driving cars that use artificial intelligence to do it in a controlled fashion—a trick better known as “drifting”—to push the limits of autonomous driving.
The two autonomous vehicles performed the daredevil stunt of drifting tandem around the Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California, in May. In a promotional video, the two cars roar around the track a few feet from one another after human drivers relinquish control.
Chris Gerdes, a professor at Stanford University who led its involvement with the project, tells WIRED that the
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