Posted on 11/01/2020 6:55:32 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Autonomous cars may be our future, but not many enthusiasts are excited by the prospect of watching driverless race cars go round a circuit.
That’s mainly because taking human skills and error out of racing equates to turning motorsport into a “sanitized” discipline where there’s very little room for unpredictability. In plain English, autonomous car racing is boring to watch. Unless of course you take into account this accident involving a Roborace self-driving vehicle.
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Did someone paint numbers on the wall? /old NASCAR joke
Will it biff right out?
We have those in Texas already, in white SUVs.
“It was just a glitch. Will be fixed in the next version.”
Perhaps they can get a two for one deal with this one?
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He was then late for the Harris/Biden rally!
A little bit of bad code caused a hilariously unfortunate crash. https://www.thedrive.com/news/37366/why-that-autonomous-race-car-crashed-straight-into-a-wall
Always thought Nascar would be more fun if the cars were radio controlled by drivers using VR. No one gets hurt but lots more wrecks!
“Oh, I think he missed the apex in that corner.”
Some techie in the comment section is really upset that people are making fun of the car. It’s great.
The unpredictability of human error (and the occasional spectacular play) is what made watching sports appealing.
Some techies think that kind of stuff is ultra cool just because it can be done.
Non-techies think it looks like a larger version of those toy cars we’ve seen for years.
Bring back Battle Bots, much more exciting.
I saw that one coming.
The engineer confirmed that the vehicle telemetry reported back the invalid data, however, it was not flagged as being invalid and was missed by the vehicle operators.
The old divide by zero problem, NaN, PILOT ERROR!!! RECALCULATING!
Making a right turn, no less.
Never rely on the GPS when racing...
Maybe its CPU calculated that the entertainment value of a high speed crash was greater than the value of the vehicle?
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