Very interesting Jan. I haven’t seen any other press coverage of this event. For the next “race”, I’d like to see multiple cars on the track at the same time, actually racing against each other.
This would give a better simulation of real life autonomous driving, to see how cars react to side by side, bumper to bumper and overtaking situations.
Was there any indications from the organizers what the next step might be?
I absolutely agree with you that a real race is what is needed to help validate the technology, and it looks like what they had originally intended to do, but at the end of the day they were just not ready.
This is a very expensive project for colleges to undertake, which helps to explain the reduced number of participating colleges and colleges joining forces, from what was originally anticipated.
Hopefully by the time of the next event, which I think will happen — but perhaps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and not at Indianapolis Motor Speedway again — an actual wheel-to-wheel race will actually take place instead of one car at a time. Based on what I saw on Saturday's live-streamed event on Twitch, with the system failures and single car crashes, if an actual race had been run this time around, that probably would have ended in a big wreck soon after Spot waved the green flag.
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Yayy well done Bavarian team
Yes, they deserve a lot of credit — and the million dollar grand prize — for their accomplishment. It was not easy.
Jan
That looks pretty interesting,but i still prefer racing with a human being behind the wheel.
Of course, but this was not really racing. They were single car time trials.
Jan
Very interesting Jan. I haven’t seen any other press coverage of this event. For the next “race”, I’d like to see multiple cars on the track at the same time, actually racing against each other.
This would give a better simulation of real life autonomous driving, to see how cars react to side by side, bumper to bumper and overtaking situations.
Was there any indications from the organizers what the next step might be?
David.
David,
I absolutely agree with you that a real race is what is needed to help validate the technology, and it looks like what they had originally intended to do, but at the end of the day they were just not ready.
There seemed to be optimism...
Read moreThanks Jan. I can see that developing this technology is outrageously expensive, and the next level even more so. David.
This is a very expensive project for colleges to undertake, which helps to explain the reduced number of participating colleges and colleges joining forces, from what was originally anticipated.
Hopefully by the time of the next event, which I think will happen — but perhaps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and not at Indianapolis Motor Speedway again — an actual wheel-to-wheel race will actually take place instead of one car at a time. Based on what I saw on Saturday's live-streamed event on Twitch, with the system failures and single car crashes, if an actual race had been run this time around, that probably would have ended in a big wreck soon after Spot waved the green flag.
Jan