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Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Let's all watch driverless cars race around, for fun

A prototype race car testing self-driving tech for the forthcoming Roborace contest has made its public debut at Donington Park's circuit. The Devbot only completed one lap round the course without a human in control. But the London-based investment fund behind the initiative - Kinetik - hopes to launch a competition featuring autonomous electric-powered cars racing against each other over the coming months.

Well I was going to say that future editions of Top Gear will become a lot less interesting... but the guy in the interview seriously seems to think that people will watch driverless cars racing. For fun. Hint : they won't.

Though I will confess to having watched this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57eXr2WUxWQ
for several minutes, with friends, while drunk.
http://www.bbc.com/news/37214619

3 comments:

  1. Add a flipper or axe and you've got robot wars extreme

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  2. How about a race motorized human vs. the machine? For instance, in F1 one of the two cars of each team driven by a human driver and the other one by a computer.

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