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New Racing Series To Feature...Driverless Cars?
Topic Started: Nov 28 2015, 06:47 PM (52 Views)
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Herald Voice: In the World's Newest Race Series, the Cars Drive Themselves

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The new race series is named Roborace, and they'll appear in the form of support races before the main driver championship. Hardware will be identical but teams are free to develop software and artificial intelligence technology to "drive" the cars.

The driverless challenge will be held as part of events of the FIA Formula E Championship, with the races to start during the 2016/17 season. There will be ten teams in the competition, each having two driverless cars competing in one hour races. The difference will be made by the teams behind the scenes using real-time computing algorithms and AI technology.

Kinetik founder Denis Sverdlov said that Roborace "is a celebration of revolutionary technology and innovation that humanity has achieved in that area so far". Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag added that the ethos of the series fits in with a future vision of the auto that he described as "electric, connected and driverless".

A little while back, we heard about a potentially huge competitive event of the future, dubbed the Robo-Olympics, and this one's cut from the very same cloth. One team will be a designated crowd-sourced entry.

"ROBORACE is a global platform to show that robotic technologies and AI can co-exist with us in real life. It is very exciting to create a platform for them to showcase what they are capable of... there is great potential for us to unearth the next big idea [in autonomous driving]".

There's no hint as to what the cars may look like, but the lack of drivers will mean that safety features can be dropped, paving the way for more radical design decisions. Formula E is now in its second season after an inaugural year steeped in doubt as to whether all-electric racing cars would draw in a crowd.

Details on the teams themselves and the technologies they'll actually race have not been announced, with Formula E promising more news in the new year.
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