Intersection Ahead Where are we going-and who is driving?

摘要

In between the execution of our annual Car of the Year and Truck of the Year programs, I spent a weekend at Rennsport V, the fifth installment of all things Porsche, up at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Throughout the event, I bumped into legendary Porsche racers, guys like Jacky Ickx, Vic Elford, Derek Bell, Hans Stuck, and Jochen Mass, along with a few of the newer endurance racing studs: Mark Webber, Earl Bamber, and Patrick Long. Porsche even arranged for a ride with Brendon Hartley, factory driver of the second-place finisher at Le Mans, in the new turbocharged 911 Carrera S. The next day, I took a side trip to nearby Mountain View, California, for the polar opposite of Rennsport, a press conference on Google's self-driving car (SDC) program. As I had flown into the Bay Area, transit between venues involved hired cars of two different types.