Audi AG Audi announced that Nevada granted the German car brand a permit to operate a self-driving car in the state. It is only the second permit granted by Nevada - the first went to Google. Audi has a car, an Audi TTS, that was developed jointly by the Volkswagen Group Electronics Research Lab in Silicon Valley and Stanford University.

It was able to complete a 156-turn, 12.42-mile circuit up Pikes Peak in Colorado in just 27 minutes.