Self-driving racing cars have found their own place at CES 2022. Italian-American team PoliMOVE created a self-driving racing car based on a Formula 1 car nicknamed Minerva, who claimed to have made history at the event, an AFP report claims. This almost set the world record for the speed of an autonomous car, as the report claims.
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The self-driving racing car took part in an unprecedented high-speed match between self-driving vehicles. The Minerva ran at the event at a speed of around 185 km / h. The report says that this self-driving car faced stiff competition from a South Korean team called Kaist.
The race was organized to allow teams of students from around the world to compete against each other to improve the skills of self-driving vehicles. It should also be checked whether self-driving vehicles can handle high-speed maneuvers. The event is also intended to help improve future technology for self-driving cars.
Paul Mitchell, co-organizer of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), said of the event that it was a success. Interestingly, this comes after the IAC put brakes on self-driving Formula 1 cars in October. It was the decision to leave more time to prepare the technology for competition and instead opted to allow the self-driving Formula 1 cars to do individual laps to see who had the best time.
CES 2022 turned out to be one of the best platforms for automotive technologies. Several car companies and technology companies also presented their innovative technologies and products at the famous tech event in Las Vegas.
Speaking of self-driving Formula 1 racing cars, his single driver’s seat was crammed with electronics during the race. In October 2021, he took part in another race in which the car reached a top speed of 250 km / h. These racing cars are equipped with software that controls the vehicle by quickly analyzing data from sophisticated sensors.
The software that controls the racing car must also anticipate how other competing vehicles will behave on the track and then maneuver accordingly.
