Real-time computing algorithms will replace humans in an innovative series of driverless races to be staged alongside the regular Formula E season, promotors said on Wednesday.
The Formula E championship features 10 teams of two drivers on city-centre circuits. Brazilian Nelson Piquet Junior won the inaugural 2014/2015 world championship.
It is seen as a cleaner and greener alternative to Formula One and the news of the Formula E initiative coincides with the Paris-hosted COP21 global climate talks.
Now Formula E and Kinetik, a technology company specialising in electric vehicles and trains, will also stage races between 10 teams of two driverless cars on the same circuits as a warm-up show to the main event.
This new championship called 'ROBORACE' will start for the 2016-2017 season. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) guided one-hour races will run over the full championship.
Won't taking humans out of the driver's seat take all the drama and excitement out of the sport?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 03 2015, @03:47PM
If your cars cannot be in the same location at the same time, that must be because they are fermionic (i.e. half-spin). Fortunately there's an easy fix to that: Add a single electron to each fermionic car, and then the cars get bosonic; it is well known that bosons can be in the same location at the same time. ;-)