Engineers redesign a 1981 DeLorean with self-driving and drifting capabilities

Stanford engineers have redesigned an iconic 1981 DeLorean with a futuristic feature that Dr. Emmett Brown didn't think of –self-driving capabilities. The vehicle, referred to as MARTY, has been converted into an all-electric, self-driving machine that boasts custom suspension and onboard computers. The team designed the vintage car to also drift in a bid to develop automated vehicles that can use all of the friction between the tires in order to'avoid any accident that is avoidable within the laws of physics'. The MARTY, which stands for Multiple Actuator Research Test bed for Yaw control, was develop by a team at Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab, which first designed to car to drift – a style of driving where the car moves forward but in a sideways position. Stanford engineers have redesigned an iconic 1981 DeLorean with a futuristic feature that Dr. Emmett Brown didn't think of –self-driving capabilities.