{"id":14630,"date":"2022-02-04T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14630"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:04:12","slug":"toyota-supra-learns-how-to-drift-all-by-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=14630","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Supra learns how to drift, all by itself"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many enthusiasts, autonomous driving represents the antithesis of everything we love about cars. However, Toyota<\/a> says that autonomous driving technology isn’t necessarily out to turn your car into a living room on wheels. Instead, the carmaker sees it as a way to augment the driver \u2014 and so it has developed the world’s first autonomously drifting car.<\/p>\n

Developed by the Toyota Research Institute, the modified Supra<\/a> is modified with a GReddy wide-body kit and some very quick software. Engineers say the programming can “calculate a whole new trajectory every 20th of a second.” It was developed with the help of professional drift driver Ken Gushi.<\/p>\n

According to Toyota, even regular drivers may face situations where the best course of action through a tricky situation, such as encountering a patch of black ice or the sudden appearance of an obstacle, might be to drift through or around it.\u00a0<\/p>\n