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what's up guys is the in Swan Duda with cnet.com and today we're taking a look at on key drive now what is anki drive well it's kind of like a slot car that I remember from when I was a kid except for their notes lot aki drive is actually run on a giant vinyl mat and there are no grooves in it to supply electricity instead the cars actually have little batteries built into them and electric motor is underneath that give them the motivation that I need the drive now the mat actually has infrared codes built into it and printed right onto it and on the bottom of the car there's a little infrared sensor that's actually reading those codes and letting the car know where it is on the track now the actual magic is going to happen as part of an iphone app the tool install on your iPhone or iPod Touch and this apps actually going to provide a bit of artificial intelligence that lets the car is know when they need to be turning when they need to be going and it also allows them to communicate with each other so they don't run into each other as they work away around the track now I'm actually only controlling one of these three cars I get a little bit of throttle control here I can change lanes and I can actually shoot at the other cars with a little virtual energy weapon the other two cars are controlled by artificial intelligence they're just running on their own up to four players can play if you have enough cars but you only get two cars in the box additional cars are 6999 and the Anki Drive starter kit is 1 99 99 now a lot of people who have actually played with me today have actually gotten bored after one or two games but after 10 games today I'm still interested in what's going on with the Anki Drive hear it a lot of fun shooting the other cars and whipping around the track well I've been antuan goodwin with cnet.com and we've been taking a look at the Anki Drive racers and the Anki Drive app you