Automakers might be able to make cars safer by inventing systems that accelerate, brake and stop for you, but there are things a machine can’t do just yet. Drifting is the four-wheeled equivalent of ballet dancing or juggling, and no computer has yet been able to understand this complex sport.
GT Channel has released a really funny video of how the complicated maneuvers made by Formula D champion Dai Yoshihara completely fool the Apple Maps app on the new iPhone 5 smartphone. This brand new feature clearly sees that the car is at the Irwindale Speedway but then wheel spin and sideways action fools the app into thinking the car is off... way off.
Our friends from Softpedia tell us this might be a calibration issue, that you have to make a figure eight with the phone to ensure the sensors are working the right way. But we’re not sure the program was designed to understand a car can be driven sideways.
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