Admittedly this is not the most ideal car to take to a track day because it’s a car that you can’t actually drive. This is the Roborace, designed by Daniel Simon who also penned the Lightcycle in Disney’s Tron: Legacy and the aircraft from Oblivion.
The Roborace competition will be a subcategory to Formula E and will feature 10 teams operating two cars each; all of which will be exactly the same. The difference within these cars, however will be the software coding which is said to make all the difference. Considering that there will be no driver in the cockpit the speeds and G-force that the
To many, a competition such as Roborace wouldn’t make any sense because of the lack of physical intervention but a project such as this should be seen as an initiative to enhance the development of autonomous driving. The vehicles on the track will be interacting with each other as the race takes place with reactions such as avoiding crashes and attacking and defending positions.
The Roborace car will be 4,8-metres long with a 2,8-metre wheelbase, 2-metres wide and will weigh in at 1 000 kg. It will be powered by Nvidia’s processing systems in conjunction with Drive PX2 motors which uses a combination of 12 cameras to gather data for the AI. These readings will be sent to a pair of next-gen Tegra processors and two next-gen discrete GPUs that have the capability of processing 24 trillion operations per second.
Expect to see these autonomous racers on the track by the end of the year.