His breakthrough came in 1963 when he was asked to test drive a Formula Three car by a customer at his father's Jaguar garage.
"I'm aiming to drive the car at the first test, " Webber told BBC Sport.
In Sacramento, Stanford University's self-driving car hit 120 mph in a test drive, and in Ann Arbor, Mich.
As this method "was taking too long", he and six other men began approaching car dealers, arranging to test-drive vehicles which they then hijacked.
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The bias affects our idea of our own intelligence as measured by IQ, how we judge our ability to think, our notion of our own relative academic records, test results, health, even ability to drive a car and be popular among friends.
As a car buyer, we can answer the first two questions confidently without ever having to enter a car dealership (except perhaps for a test drive).
It then asks if they have trolled the Internet for car information, visited a dealership or taken a test drive, among other questions.
You can read a lot of car brochures, but they never add up to a test drive.
Now, of course, everything is relative, and my test car is a 2.0-liter, front-drive compact with an automatic transmission on all-season meats, so it's not remotely a sports car.
The former Paypal and Space X founder took to Twitter to defend the Model S after the review said the car ran out of power sooner than expected during a test drive on a cold, winter's day.
You go to the dealership, hop in the car, slam the doors, smell the leather and take a test drive.
Sure, the Nissan Leaf is more practical as a family car for everyday driving (and I loved the way it handled in a test drive, too).
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Car buyers, for instance, need plenty of advice and the opportunity of a test drive.
Our test car was the TL with SH-AWD ("super-handling all-wheel drive, " one of my favorite overblown Japanese brand phrases) equipped with the 3.7-liter V6 and new-for-2012 six-speed automatic (previously a five-speed).
He said it was worrying that people could take their driving test in a smaller vehicle but then buy a van which "is five, six times bigger than the car you've passed your test in, and you can just jump in and drive away, having no experience of driving a van at all".
With the Focus Electric rolling into showrooms, I took a pre-production model on a two-week tech test drive around the San Francisco Bay Area last month to experience daily life in the cloud with an electric car.
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Shortly before Lamborghini was set to introduce the new Aventador super-luxury sports car in 2011, for instance, Winterkorn took the 690-horsepower behemoth for a final test drive.
Car dealers are not as threatened yet by showrooming since online new car sales have not exploded for a host of reasons such as the baseline need for a test drive.
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In green transportation news, we watched in awe as Jeremy Clarkson took the world's smallest car -- which is basically a go-kart with body armor -- for a terrifying test drive on England's busy A3 highway.
The complexities of large cities present a myriad of challenges as much as developing the car and technology itself, but there have already been early discussions with Singapore and Hong Kong to test drive the cars and system on a small scale.
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