Indianapolis Motor Speedway To Host Autonomous Car Race On Saturday (jalopnik.com) 51
New submitter Motard writes: Dallara Indy Lights racing cars outfitted as autonomous vehicles by Clemson University and programmed by various international collegiate teams will participate in a 20-lap race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday, Oct. 23rd 2021. The event will be livestreamed by the Indy Autonomous Challenge website. Nine teams representing 21 universities from 9 different countries will compete for a $1 million prize. [The second and third-placed teams will receive $250,000 and $500,000 respectively. Only those that complete the race in 25 minutes or less will be eligible for prize money.]
Count on Americans (Score:3, Funny)
to figure out a way to automate boredom!
Re: Count on Americans (Score:2)
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1. If there are any car wrecks....it looks bad for the companies.
2. If there are no wrecks...then what's the point for people to watch the damned race?
Re:I've been cyber-crippled. (Score:5, Funny)
You aren't going out and mingling with normal society, are you?
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Which part of society is "normal"?
Nascar of the Future (Score:2)
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Robots will be driving Nascar cars in the future which will be all electric as gas powered cars will be banned !
Why even bother with actual cars at this point? If it's all computerized and electronic, just do it all in VR. If people want something to bet on, we could reduce it even further and just have a random number generator. Fun, fun, fun!
And pay the winner $100k?
https://www.enascar.com/news-m... [enascar.com]
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There's a good argument for eSports motor racing. It's obviously a lot less dangerous, but it also brings the costs down so that the sport isn't dominated by rich teams like F1 is.
The fans can play the same game too, they can participate in the sport along with the best professional drivers.
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While they can be fun in their own regard I don't consider them to be as interesting as the real thing. On one side the simulations aren't still as precise as the real thing. Also, when you remove the danger from the equation the drivers can be much more reckless in their driving and I don't think th
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Also, when you remove the danger from the equation the drivers can be much more reckless in their driving and I don't think that's as interesting as real-world racing.
I don't think the risk of danger is such a huge motivator. Those vehicles are DAMN safe. Look at the nasty wrecks that people just walk away from. I think the much bigger motivator is the risk of being taken out the race by a wrecked car, and that can exist just as well in a virtual race.
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It's as much about advancing the tech as it is about the race itself. I've long thought that autonomous races should be a thing. It's a great closed circuit situation and the driving conditions are far beyond the everyday, going down the street to the grocery store level driving. Will it directly translate to better self-driving cars out in public? Probably not immediately. But every move forward is a positive one at this point. While doing it inside a computer COULD be interesting, real life, real ca
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Why even bother with actual cars at this point? If it's all computerized and electronic, just do it all in VR. If people want something to bet on, we could reduce it even further and just have a random number generator. Fun, fun, fun!
Anyone who has ever built a robot understands why they should bother with actual cars. The challenge of cyber-physical integration lies with the fact that the physical world is *not* a computer simulation, and what seems simple in theory is often very hard in practice. The "real world" is messy.
I hope that robot cars aren't the future of motorsports, but I think that motorsports make a great environment for pushing the development of robot cars (and cyber-physical systems in general).
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Why even bother with actual cars at this point? If it's all computerized and electronic, just do it all in VR. If people want something to bet on, we could reduce it even further and just have a random number generator. Fun, fun, fun!
Anyone who has ever built a robot understands why they should bother with actual cars. The challenge of cyber-physical integration lies with the fact that the physical world is *not* a computer simulation, and what seems simple in theory is often very hard in practice. The "real world" is messy.
I hope that robot cars aren't the future of motorsports, but I think that motorsports make a great environment for pushing the development of robot cars (and cyber-physical systems in general).
If only someone could build an AI sarcasm detector.
1st need Ah sarcasm recognizer (Score:2)
Ah, I get it so bypass kneejerk instant dispute generator
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Re:Nascar of the Future (Score:5, Interesting)
There has always been two sometimes competing sometimes not ideas in auto racing - a test of driver skill - and pushing the technical envelope.
Both have merit and both are interesting. Its only gets stupid when you do stupid stuff like Formula-E where spectators get to vote on 'power ups'. WTF - not sportsman like, and not technology just a lame way to garner some audience engagement.
Honestly if they make contests like this about who can bring the best technology to the table and build a better automated driving systems on faster cars with lots of down force and tons of power, opening it up to running higher speeds and more aggressive lines in tighter traffic etc it could be a lot fun! With nobody in the cockpit a lot safety and ethics concerns go away too so there is no reason push to standardize platforms and implement rules against excessively risky driving/behaviors (well other than $$$ equipment getting destroyed). We could return to the early days of racing in a sense and really let the engineers 'try stuff' the corporate brands truly compete!
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Robots will be driving Nascar cars in the future
What do you mean in the future... Nascar only requires going forward and turning in one direction... We could already automate that. Would also make post race interviews better.
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I dunno, kinda hard to be "Let's go Brandon" from a couple weeks ago...hahaha.
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Sounds good to me. By which I mean you won't need hearing protection to attend.
I enjoy the sound of a motor as much as anyone else, I nail it getting on the highway so I can hear my 5.4 V8 at least twice a day... well, if there's no dumbshit getting on the highway as slowly as possible right in front of me on my way to work, which there usually is. People drive like complete dogshit here in Humboldt. It's literally worse than Texas, which was my former winner for shit driving.
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By the gods, the worst driving I've ever seen is here in Sioux Falls. I got on the interstate behind a corvette a few days back. I'm thinking I'll finally get a chance to open her up. And I did. Right up to the point the on-ramp hit the main interstate. Then the dumb fuck literally stood on his fucking brakes and almost got an impala shoved up his ass for the trouble. The stupid bastard literally came to a stop and looked over his shoulder before starting again to merge. I swear, nobody understands w
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I had that experience in my stock '89 240SX with an RX-7. Much egg on face. Same speed, too
It would be interesting to watch it for one reason (Score:2)
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It's outdoor Battlebots.
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Do you go for the win and the million dollars, or do you try for third and half a million, knowing that the team in second place is probably going to fall back and be third too if they can't win. Will the race slow to a crawl once the first car is over the line?
You draft second place, then push them across the line.
second place is the first loser (Score:2)
second place is the first loser
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"SCREW SECOND!" /Stroker Ace
That's $50,000 (Score:2)
The article mentions that third place receives $50,000 rather than $500,000.
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The second and third-placed teams will receive $250,000 and $500,000 respectively.
That makes much more sense, as "respectively" as it stands in the current sentence assigns more money to the 3rd place, than 2nd place.
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...well look at the amount of porn on the internet you should get a hint ;)
Hey, some people need clear instructions and how too's even if they are a DIYer.
There will be a 20 car pile up in the first turn (Score:2)
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Over under on how many cars don't move from the start line? I am guessing two.
Lack of terminal consequences (Score:2)
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and it was promptly hacked (Score:1)
With respect (Score:3)
the second and third-placed teams will receive $250,000 and $500,000 respectively.
"Sir, I know what 'respectively' means."
Jerry: "I don't think you do."
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"You keep using that word, but . . ."