On Saturday at the South By Southwest conference in Austin, Delphi made history by announcing the first coast-to-coast automated drive. Dubbed the Delphi Drive, the trip will start in San Francisco on March 22 and end in New York City a few days later. To make the drive possible, the company rigged a 2015 Audi SQ5 with additional sensors and computers, all seamlessly tucked into the vehicle, and brought it to the C3 Connected Car Pavilion at SXSW for a static demo. I had the chance to experience the self-driving tech first hand. See also: Welcome To Peak Car—And A Transformation In How We Get Around What I saw convinced me that we could be closer than ever to seeing autonomous driving in real production vehicles. Top Gear One of the major automotive tech themes of 2015 is how autonomous driving has been burning rubber toward reality. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Audi drove one of its “piloted” cars from San Francisco to Las Vegas without human intervention. BMW showed an i3 that... - Web2024