Driverless Cars Compete for $1 Million

Twenty years ago, the idea of ​​an autonomous vehicle sounded crazy. science fiction project it sounded like. Today, however, we can easily see semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles on the streets. And this was not enough, the idea of ​​​​competing these autonomous vehicles was put forward in the past years. It seems that this idea about to happen.

A special car race will be held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Saturday. What makes this car race different from others no one in the driver’s seat. The race will create a unique platform to showcase the way autonomous vehicle technology has come.

The $1 million prize will be awarded:

There are 9 participants in the race, which is called the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) and has a prize of 1 million dollars. Autonomous vehicles will start the race one after another and completing two laps in the shortest time The car will win. Each vehicle has a crew. These teams from around the world consists of incoming students. Every team looks like a Formula 1 car Branches IL-15 tool given. All of these tools are the same in terms of hardware. For this reason, the approximate value written by each team is the main determinant in the race. 40,000 program codes it will be.

There will be computers in the driver’s seat of vehicles reaching a speed of 250 km per hour:

Normally, computers are located in the seat where the driver sits. Instead of a driver activating the vehicle, the engine starts to work with the command sent from the software on the computer. Paul Mitchell, CEO of Energy Systems Network, one of the companies that organized this race, said that the project’s ‘autonomous technology can work under harsh conditions‘ he says he aims to prove.

If this is one of the most impressive elements of the tech race speed of vehicles. The tool of the team called PoliMOVE, founded in partnership with the University of Alabama and the Politecnico University in Milan 250 kilometers per hour can reach impressive speeds. However, when it reached this speed in the test drives, the vehicle spun 360 degrees and stopped for a while on the grass.

Stating that there is no problem in their program, only cold wheels and steering error, Prof. Sergio Matteo Savaresi said: “It was a miracle it didn’t hit anything. As a matter of fact, we have reached the limit of the vehicle. driving at this speed a professional driver would experience exactly the same thing with these wheels.” said.

The Robocar, produced by Roborace, was the fastest car among autonomous vehicles so far. Robocar, which reaches a speed of 282 km per hour, since 2019 holds the record.