Watch the world’s fastest self-driving car zoom around a racetrack

The NIO EP9 electrical automotive lapped the Circuit of the Americas racetrack in Austin, Texas in 2 minutes and 40.33 seconds final week — and not using a driver on the wheel and with a prime velocity of 160 mph.

NextEV, the Chinese language startup which manufactures the NIO EP9, says this makes it the quickest autonomous electrical automotive on the planet. It produces an astonishing 1,342 horsepower from its 4 electrical motors and, with a human behind the wheel, it lapped the monitor in 2 minutes and 11.30 seconds, reaching a prime velocity of 170 mph. NextEV says it’s able to 194 miles per hour and has a variety of 265 miles, although in all probability not on the similar time.

The lap of the monitor was an (admittedly cool) promotional stunt that comes forward of the launch of the corporate’s US...

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