.Challengeher: The perfect line of code for drivers:
for the Self Racing Cars website: "Why would I come watch this? It seems boring." I kinda thought the same when I was invited to see the SRC group at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Why would I watch that? But the SRC event coincided with the Velocity Invitational, a gathering of vintage race cars that sounded very not boring, so I headed to Monterey to see what line self-driving race cars take in the Corkscrew.
Backward is the answer, at least for the Lexus CT that Point One Navigation brought out. The red hatchback ran the course in reverse—and in Reverse. "Our test driver says it was faster than he was," says Daniel Gruver, director of product for Point One. Well, sure, the camera-rigged CT has eyes in the back of its head and no sense of how wrong it feels to head up Laguna's famous hill, taillights first.
As we keep hearing, most autonomy isn't ready for the road or even the road course. Self-driving cars aren't at a place where they can rip around a track, actively blocking and making split-second decisions to skip the apex and ride the wall like NASCAR driver Ross Chastain did back in October. "Racing dynamically is a lot to instrument," Gruver says. “Humans are very good at this.
Ain McKendrick, CEO of Faction Technology, is working on small, driverless EVs for use as remote-operated delivery vehicles. "Sitting in traffic to return a rental car at the airport or delivering DoorDash—that's not driving anyone is excited to do. Plus, a robot won't eat your fries." He says several exotic-hypercar companies have also expressed interest in Faction's tech. "For a performance car, it can reposition it in a garage or show you a [better] line on track.
A very analog 1971 Mini Cooper sat a few pit stalls away, its roof all toad bumped with zip-tied cubes and cylinders. Adam Rodnitzky of Tangram Vision uses the Mini—his own—as a rolling test bed to verify the company's software. It stitches information from the roof-mounted sensors, including lidar, radar, and 3-D cameras, into a topographical map of the car's surroundings. Rodnitzky gave me a ride and admits he enjoys these events as an excuse to get on track himself.
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