With so much attention and investment centered on a future when driverless vehicles will shuttle people from Point A to Point B, one might wonder if the days of traditional high-performance cars and motorsports are numbered.
As one guest noted Tuesday night at an invite-only dinner hosted by Fortune and The Drive, it seems as if the cradle of innovation has shifted to the streets of Mountain View, Calif. (where the testing of self-driving cars is commonplace).
In other words, are motorsports and high-performance vehicles going to lose their relevancy? And what do they have left to teach us?