Meet MARTY, Stanford's self-driving, electric, drifting DeLorean

Stanford University engineers built an autonomous DeLorean capable of stable, precise drifting at large angles in order to study how cars perform in extreme situations, which could ultimately guide the development of autonomous safety protocols. Click here to learn more about the project.

Coincidentally (?), in "Back to the Future Part II" released in 1989, Marty McFly travels to yesterday – Oct. 21, 2015 – in his time-traveling DeLorean, to save his yet-to-be born children...