RIDING SHOTGUN
Watch an amazing auto-driving car tackle the chaotic streets of London – and its famous passenger is super impressed
AN AMAZING auto-driving car has tackled the chaotic streets of London – leaving its famous passenger impressed.
The Jaguar I-Pace is fitted with self-driving technology developed by UK firm Wayve, which allows it to navigate traffic without being told how to act.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates, for many years the world's richest man, rode shotgun as a passenger in the self-driving vehicle - which took him to pick up some fish and chips.
He said: "I was recently asked to take a ride around London in a car without a driver - or rather, no human driver.
"Other self-driving technologies work only on specific maps and streets.
"Wayve's technology operates more like a human driver would, learning how to drive in one city and then applying that knowledge to driving in new places.
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"London is a very challenging place to drive, with lots of traffic, pedestrians and cyclists.
Footage showed the car's steering-wheel spinning hands free as it drove itself through what Gates called "downtown London".
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The Wayve algorithm controls the car's accelerator, steering-wheel, indicators and brakes.
Gates looked through the windscreen as the car slowed down for a London cyclist, before the algorithm eventually lost its patience and hit the accelerator.
He told Wayve engineers: "This is the real world. I'll give you credit for picking one of the most difficult situations I've seen in an autonomous car - ever.
"The humans are having a hard time. You can tell they're trying to make judgment calls."
Gates celebrated the tech breakthrough by eating a box of fish and chips with his hands while still sat in the car.
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