Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too)

Re:Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too) by jrimbault on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:51AM (#30720981)

Is there something similar to F1 but with autonomous cars ?

Just a race between autonomous cars, pitting teams of engineers directly against each other instead of via the human pilot.

I guessed that would involve some pretty different design of the cars, since without the human much of the current designs around safety wouldn't apply. Cars could go faster, slow less, take more risky trajectories.

There's RobotWars, but these always seem (currently) like a weird RC toys competitions.

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Re:Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too) by lxhrstn on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:55AM (#30721024)

This already exists, it's called Roborace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roborace)

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Re:Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too) by jrimbault on Friday March 18, 2022 @07:57AM (#30721037)

Thanks :) that was why I asked here

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Re:Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too) by klausjensen on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:00AM (#30721068)

I think the largest attempt at something like that is Roborace - a spinoff from Formula-E (Formula 1 - for electric vehicles).

But they lack the human aspects, personalities etc, which is a huge part of Formula 1.

After many years away from Formula 1 (because it became boring), which I loved as a kid, I started following it again last year, and absolutely love it again.

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Re:Why I love Formula 1 (and why you might like it too) by voqv on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:07AM (#30721133)

In addition to what other's mentioned, there's also this:

https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/

Idk if it's going to be recurring, but they had a second race for CES22.

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