While this article’s title makes a big claim, it’s really not that far fetched to believe – just hard to achieve right now.
Audi’s head of product and tech communications, Stefan Moser, recently made the statement that “if we have a proper system it will always be better than human beings,” then explained it’s because “they are not phoning, not looking at pretty girls, no distractions.”
The official also announced the internal Audi intention to be the first automaker to bring such a system to market – they’re currently mostly waiting on (German) legislation to give the full green light, it seems.
He also wanted to make it clear that the systems will be safe. Motoring talks about how it will feature “redundancy systems, a second control unit, in case the primary system dies, and noted that the error rate with the technology so far was “zero.”
We’re not buying the part about there never being any errors, but until one of these self-driving cars does something really bad, we’ll have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
The tech is expected to debut in the all-new Audi A8, a model due in showrooms in 2017. In regards to the self-driving tech pricing, well, Moser says it will “not too much higher.”
Note: RS 7 Piloted Driving Concept pictured
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