"StingrayJake" (stingrayjake)
03/30/2016 at 15:35 • Filed to: Roborace
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"StingrayJake" (stingrayjake)
03/30/2016 at 15:35 • Filed to: Roborace | 0
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Roborace, the autonomous racing series that has hitched its wagon to Formula E, unveiled the (spec) challenger that will be available to teams for the 2016-17 season today — and it’s suitably bonkers.
It looks like something the designers at Hot Wheels would dream up for a fantasy car. That actually might not be that crazy considering the designer, Daniel Simon, was responsible for the light cycles in Tron: Legacy [thanks !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ].
There still isn’t a lot of information available on Roborace and what it’ll consist of aside from this beautiful, autonomous contraption. According to The Verge, this is the car as it will race. Engineers have already had their way with it.
Roborace says its car will be capable of 186 mph, but will teams be willing to push the limits of a still relatively unproven technology? Will the autonomous programming (and even the downforce levels) allow the cars to take risks and complete overtakes, or will it settle into a series of boring parade laps *cough*F1*cough*?
Autonomous tech doesn’t really interest me — I need my freedoms, damn it! Murica! — but will the actual racing make the series worth watching?
JustAnotherG6
> StingrayJake
03/30/2016 at 16:10 |
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It would be interesting to see how they program the logic for the cars try to overtake each other.
Hot Takes Salesman
> StingrayJake
03/30/2016 at 17:08 |
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And will different teams get different programming? If so, how long would it take before it spiraled into Williams FW15C levels of technological insanity?
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StingrayJake
> Hot Takes Salesman
03/30/2016 at 17:18 |
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My understanding is that the hardware is all spec and the teams will develop their own programming.
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Hot Takes Salesman
> StingrayJake
03/30/2016 at 17:26 |
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Well, like the German tank engineers said at the end of WW2, fuck it, let's see how this goes
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StingrayJake
> Hot Takes Salesman
03/30/2016 at 17:29 |
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I do think there’s a lot of potential here. Given the lack of a human element, I’d love to see these things pushed to the absolute limit — and continue to evolve from that. F-Zero without the pilots. Imagine the speed potential for a car that doesn’t have a squishy passenger to protect.