Autonomous race cars are starting to show up on some very famous tracks.
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cars → start → tracks
On Sept. 3, the Indy Autonomous Challenge brought its driverless race cars to WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca in California.
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Challenge → bring → California
Purdue AI Racing set a new autonomous track record and finished second in a head-to-head passing competition.
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Racing → set → competition
Italy's Unimore Racing took the win.
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Racing → take → win
Two days later, autonomous racing took another step forward in Europe.
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racing → take → Europe
Five teams brought fully autonomous race cars to Italy's Imola Circuit for the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League's first race outside Abu Dhabi.
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teams → bring → Dhabi
Team Kinetiz came from fourth on the grid to win the 12-lap event.
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Kinetiz → come → event
Now autonomous racing has reached major circuits in the U.S., Europe and Abu Dhabi.
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racing → reach → U.S.
The technology clearly travels.
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technology → travel → ?
The bigger question is whether the fans will follow.
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fans → follow → ?
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you → show → healthcare
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You → learn → visit
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Driverless racing is becoming a global competition
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racing → register → CyberGuyLive.com
The races at Laguna Seca and Imola came from two different autonomous racing programs.
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races → come → programs
The Indy Autonomous Challenge brings together university teams that develop AI drivers for identical race cars.
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that → bring → cars
At Laguna Seca, nine university teams from North America, Europe and Asia were scheduled to compete.
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teams → schedule → America
The Sept. 3 event pushed the competition further by adapting the Indy Autonomous Challenge's passing format to a road course for the first time.
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event → push → time
Instead of several cars racing as a pack, two autonomous cars take turns in attacking and defending roles.
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cars → race → roles
The software has to manage spacing and decide when it can safely make a move.
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it → have → move
Purdue became the only American team to qualify for that portion of the competition.
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Purdue → become → competition
Its car also set a 1:27.731 autonomous lap record before finishing runner-up to Unimore.
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car → set → Unimore
Then came Imola.
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Imola → come → ?
A2RL brought autonomous racing from its home at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi to Europe for the first time.
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A2RL → bring → time
The league says Imola represents another step toward its goal of creating an international championship for fully autonomous race cars.
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Imola → say → cars
Five autonomous race cars headed to the grid at Imola
Imola raised the difficulty again.
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cars → head → difficulty
Kinetiz, Constructor Racing, PoliMOVE, Unimore Racing and two-time A2RL champion TUM entered the event.
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Kinetiz → enter → event
Each team competed with identical EAV-25 race car hardware based on the Dallara Super Formula SF23 platform.
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team → compete → platform
That means much of the competitive advantage came from the software each team developed.
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team → mean → software
The AI had to figure out where the car was, understand what was happening around it and decide what to do next.
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what → have → what
Then it had to turn those decisions into braking and steering inputs at racing speed.
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it → have → speed
TUM ran into a technical problem on the formation lap and returned to the pits before the rolling start.
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TUM → run → start
That left the remaining cars to fight for position.
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That → leave → position
Unimore had started from pole and led the race.
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Unimore → start → race
Then things went wrong.
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things → go → ?
A crash showed how hard autonomous racing can be
Unimore set the fastest lap of the race before suffering a technical problem that caused the car to slow dramatically.
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car → show → problem
PoliMOVE was close behind and hit the slowing Unimore car from the rear.
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PoliMOVE → hit → rear
The collision ended both teams' runs.
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collision → end → runs
That opened the door for Kinetiz.
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That → open → Kinetiz
The Singapore-UAE team had started fourth but moved into the lead and won by 10.963 seconds over Germany's Constructor Racing.
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team → start → Racing
…and 52 more, not listed.
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