In this article, MotorTrend journalist Justin Westbrook reports on Toyota Research Institute and Stanford Engineering's achievement of the world's first fully autonomous tandem drift sequence.

"While Toyota and others have gotten solo cars to autonomously drift in the past, the novel approach here is training the chase car to adapt to the conditions of the lead car, to better simulate real world situations where a vehicle safety system may need to kick in to help a driver avoid sliding into other motorists, pedestrians, or obstacles in a dynamic manner that goes beyond mimicking a navigational route or rudimentary braking system, but instead actually reacting to the situation at hand with various inputs," Westbrook wrote. "It looks like simple fun, but it's actually another complex step closer to an AI-driven future that actually might have some benefits."