The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be the site of a R14.5 million race with no drivers

[mylesillidge]

The R14.5 million car race with a catch — no drivers allowed

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host its first-ever race featuring autonomous vehicles, the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), due to take place on 23 October 2021.

Nine teams will compete for the $1 million (R14,495,100) prize in an 80km race, consisting of 20 four-kilometre laps, and the teams can only enter one vehicle each — with no backups available.

 

[GhostSixFour]

Competing for the prize and a job at Tesla or any motor manufacturer of their choice I assume.

 

[Ghost64]

And it starts...
So flipping stupid, I’ll still watch it.

 

[DoodleBug]

Meh nothing new, roborace kicked off in 2018...

 

[Utterly Confused]

I think it would be more exciting if the cars were disguised as South African mini taxis.

 

[zoozi]

This sounds catastrophically boring as a racing fan, as fascinating as watching a conveyer belt.
They should make the format destruction derby, now that's worth a watch.

 

[Baise]

Big boys scaletrix

 

[Ghost64]

This sounds catastrophically boring as a racing fan, as fascinating as watching a conveyer belt.
They should make the format destruction derby, now that's worth a watch.

I watched marble races when lock down started, was fun.
This should be similar. I guess there could be one or two autonomous vehicles going haywire lol!

 

[wingnut771]

I watched marble races when lock down started, was fun.
This should be similar. I guess there could be one or two autonomous vehicles going haywire lol!

Marble racing is awesome. Best part is the commentary.

 

[ponder]

• Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications: To ensure successful multi-car racing, vehicles must communicate with each other. The information shared between vehicles is intended to mimic what drivers and/or spotters can observe about their competition during a race. Clemson students will work directly with the competition Teams to determine the types of information that needs to be shared between vehicles. Examples of shared signals are track location, ground speed, heading, acceleration, braking rate and vehicle fault states.

DoS attack FTW

 

[ShaunSA]

I watched marble races when lock down started, was fun.
This should be similar. I guess there could be one or two autonomous vehicles going haywire lol!

Marble races?

 

[wingnut771]

Marble races?

Olympics?

F1?

Rally?

 

[ShaunSA]

And people watch this?

 

[wingnut771]

And people watch this?

Try it.