Re:Formula E to feature autonomous car racing
by agumonkey on Saturday November 28, 2015 @03:09AM
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The spread of self driving vehicles (and even drones) is probably an 'accelerating returns' of some sort. Such context will act as a beautiful test bed for complex and limit cases. Unless the results end up locked it will backfire positively on in-society driving.
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Re:Formula E to feature autonomous car racing
by quanticle on Saturday November 28, 2015 @03:29AM
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I would love to see a rule where the software that each team uses has to be open-sourced at the end of the season, both to ensure competitive parity between well funded and not-so-well-funded teams, and also to ensure that any breakthroughs spread quickly from the world of racing to the world of "normal" cars.
Re:Formula E to feature autonomous car racing
by pbhjpbhj on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:14AM
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It would be interesting to have a stock car version with software open before the race. Teams could try exploits, interfere with GPS, drive evasively, etc. - arguably this will lead to greater hardening techniques, ability to cope with crashes of all types.