Gallery: I Rode 500 Miles in a Self-Driving Car and Saw the Future. It's Delightfully Dull
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We spent two days driving in an autonomous Audi A7, from Palo Alto to Las Vegas, for CES.
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The interface for autonomous mode is easy to understand. To hand over control, hit those two buttons on the steering wheel at the same time.
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When the car's in piloted mode, a bar of LED lights below the windshield turns blue-green. It turns yellow, then red, when it's set to shut off.
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Google Maps is standard in Audi cars, but the autonomous A7 concept uses enhanced maps with extra info about things like turn radii.
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Apart from the special paint job, it's hard to tell 'Jack' apart from a conventional Audi A7 on the road.
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It's powered by a 3.0-liter engine that produces 310 horsepower, and sits on 19-inch wheels.
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Radars are tucked behind the body panels at each of the car's corners.
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Audi's 30-car convoy into Las Vegas was accompanied by a helicopter.
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