The Volkswagen Golf GTi 53 Plus - the robot car

Goodbye self driving cars from the Darpa Challenge; Volkswagen has already made the fully autonomous car for you!

All that money thrown in to the Darpa Challenge every year, where teams compete to make the car that can drive by itself across a certain distance - and these guys were making the fully autonomous, self driving car quietly all by themselves? Unbelievable! 

For those who don't know what we are talking about, we are talking Herbie. A car that can drive all by itself, desert or street, highway or heavy traffic. And the driver just sits there and reads a newspaper. Those fully autonomous robot cars of the sci-fi movies is already here. I don't think its odd to call this particular Volswagen Golf GTi 53 Plus a robot car.

Volkswagen, the German car maker has shown the muscle to create history by making the world's first car which can drive itself. The car is not something like the battery charged prototypes, it can reach speeds up to 150 mph.

The Volksagen Golf GTi '53 Plus is a fully automatic car which does not need the help of humans to drive on its own. It can travel through any terrain and cheat the tricky corners or bends. A similar car like this one was there in the Herbie movies in the 1960s. In that movie, the car was known by the number 53 and the Volkswagen are just taking that number from the film and making the dream a reality.

GTi uses radars and electronic sensors through its electronic eyes and then it will send the data back to the computer brain. The exact position of the car is tracked with the help of a satellite navigation system and the precision will be so accurate that even the error of an inch wont be allowed. 

The top speed of the Volkswagen Golf GTi Plus is 150 mph and that speed is something that is unimaginable for a car like this one. To prove to the world that this car is no gimmick, guests were allowed to design their own courses and then watch the car fly all on its own.

"It really is a self-driving Golf. It steers, brakes and accelerates. And it races through handling courses independently. It can accomplish this at full performance and at the limits of its capabilities, " said a Volkswagen spokesman.

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