Stanford built a self-driving, electric DeLorean and it does donuts

Finally. A Back to the Future tribute that's genuinely cool.

Engineers at Stanford University along with Renovo Motors built an electric, self-driving DeLorean, appropriately named MARTY. The researchers are using it as a test bed to develop autonomous cars that use racing-inspired techniques to avoid accidents.

In this case "racing-inspired technique" means drifting, hence why Stanford decided to show off MARTY with a video of it doing donuts around a cone. MARTY is actually an acronym, standing for "Multiple Actuator Research Test bed for Yaw control," Yaw being a more scientific word for drifting. Read more...