Can a dog drive better than my wife?

They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but now it seems that you can show them how to drive
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An animal welfare group in New Zealand has trained three dogs to get behind the wheel in an attempt to show the public how intelligent they are.  The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will put them to the test in a live broadcast.


The dogs have been trained over eight weeks in specially made wooden carts which they have been driving around inside an indoor test lab.

They then graduated to a modified Mini in which they sat on their haunches in the driver’s seat with their paws on the steering wheel. Their feet go on extension levers which had been attached to the accelerator and the brake whilst their paw will rest on the gearstick.

The organisation hopes that the public will be so impressed with the animals that they will adopt them and others like them.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2243537/You-really-CAN-teach-old-dog-new-tricks-The-strays-trained-drive-car.html