Three CLRs were entered for Le Mans after performing nearly 22000 mile of testing, however the cars suffered aerodynamic instabilities along the circuit's long high-speed straight sections.
By December 1965 the M2A had completed over 2000 mile of testing and two race engines were ready to be installed in the M2B, Bruce McLaren testing the car at Goodwood Circuit.
Tesla vehicles can already drive hands-free on highways and the company says it has collected 780m miles of test data from its users.
There were only about 50 Fireflies in the fleet at best, and while they racked up millions of miles of test drives, that's still not enough.
But for now, Ahlborn and his team is focused on building about five miles of test track in a little, futuristic town in the middle of California farm country.
The cool secret technique that in fact all the companies in question know about is the possibility of using and learning from data that's been hoarded over a million miles of test driving.
"The technology works because, frankly, the computer can see better than you can, even if you're not drunk in a car," Schmidt, whose company's self-driving vehicles have completed 1.5 million miles of test drives, told a receptive audience Monday at the Milken Institute Global Conference. .
This is the 14th accident in six years and about 1.9 million miles of testing, according to the company.
To counter quality concerns, Mahindra has put a fleet of vehicles through more than three million miles of testing, Global Vehicles says.
The new delay, from a hoped-for late July start, came when bolts broke on the trucks of new electric locomotives after 40,000 miles of testing.
