This Maserati MC20 Just Became the Fastest Autonomous Car

Records are meant to be broken, especially fastest-speed records in cars.

Maserati announced Monday that it set a new record for fastest autonomous car, or 197.7 mph in modified MC20, beating the old record by 4.9 mph. The record was set at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on one of the world’s longest runways, the 2.8-mile stretch of pavement where Space Shuttles landed.

The modified MC20 that drove autonomously—also with help from artificial…