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b'In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Chris Gerdes, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, about designing high-performance autonomous vehicles. The idea is to make\\xa0vehicles safer, as Gerdes says, he wants to \\u201cdevelop vehicles that could avoid any accident that can be avoided within the laws of physics.\\u201d \\n\\nIn this interview, Gerdes discusses developing a model for high-performance control of a vehicle; their autonomous race car, an Audi TTS named \\u2018Shelley,\\u2019 and how its autonomous performance compares to ameteur and professional race car drivers; and an autonomous, drifting Delorean named \\u2018MARTY.\\u2019'