Driverless racing to support Formula E
Support category ROBORACE will pit autonomous Formula E race cars against each other from next yearZero-emissions racing category Formula E has partnered with EV drivetrain specialist Kinetik to work on autonomous (driverless) cars to take to the tracks for the 2016/17 season.
Named ROBORACE, the support category will nominally provide a "competitive platform for the autonomous driving solutions that are now being developed by many large industrial automotive and technology players as well as top tech universities," according to a press release issued late last week.
Each hour-long ROBORACE heat will run immediately prior to the main Formula E race and the field will comprise two cars for each of the 10 teams involved. One will be a crowd-funded team open to unaligned software developers. Setting the autonomous vehicles apart will be "real-time computing algorithms and AI technologies".
"We passionately believe that, in the future, all of the world's vehicles will be assisted by AI and powered by electricity, thus improving the environment and road safety," said Denis Sverdlov, Founder of Kinetik and ROBORACE.
"ROBORACE is a celebration of revolutionary technology and innovation that humanity has achieved in that area so far. It's a global platform to show that robotic technologies and AI can co-exist with us in real life. Thus, anyone who is at the edge of this transformation now has a platform to show the advantages of their driverless solutions and this shall push the development of the technology."
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