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No riders on Saturday 23 October on the legendary Indianapolis circuit (United States), but an algorithm, with an average speed of 218 km / h. It could now be used by industry.
On the Indianapolis circuit (United States), the race was closely followed, Saturday, October 23, by the various teams. If the public came in large numbers, the pilots are absent. The cars, which soar at over 250 km / h, are fully autonomous. “What we did was remove the pilot and put in a lot of electronics, computers, sensors”, explains Sergio Matteo Savaresi, professor at Politecnico University in Milan, Italy, and member of the PoliMOVE team.
The machines are able to spot an obstacle of one centimeter, 250 meters away. Manufacturers want to study these machines for their future consumer vehicles. Teams of young engineers from all over the world have worked for years. The little IT gems, however, are not yet immune to a bug. For the public in any case, the absence of the pilots does not take anything away from the show. The race was won by the team from the University of Munich (Germany), awarded with one million dollars.