It's worth noting that Stanford and Audi (an extension of the VW/Stanford work with DARPA) - will be competing in the upcoming Pikes Peak challenge. For those unaware, it's a balls out race up a mountain road. Asphalt, dirt, weather changes, and sheer dropoffs.
So far they've demo'd the car drifting and powersliding into parking spots:
So far they've demo'd the car drifting and powersliding into parking spots:
Stanfords Audi (3min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2UaYIHiiOA
As mentioned above, BMW did just that a while ago (2min): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rbUfTYykc
Lastly (I can't view the video), Google mentioned a while back they've already put over 50,000 miles on their fleet.