Racer is not needed. Drag racing in autopilot

Perhaps in the near future all new cars produced in the world, will have autopilot. Because the relevant technology is evolving by leaps and bounds. A vivid confirmation of this can serve as a travel pohoroshemu track of the Audi TTS equipped with artificial "pilot", developed by experts from Stanford University.

Google has developed the world's first operational system of automotive autopilot and have ensured that it has been legalized in some US States, for example, in Nevada. In her footsteps of many other corporate and independent developers, including laboratory and Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab, which is part of Stanford University.
Thanks to the work of engineers from Google, now no longer need to prove that the automobile autopilot has a right to exist — this fact is indisputable! But still remains many questions about the modes of its action. For example, how will behave this or a similar technology when driving at high speed. So here's the problem and took the guys from Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab.





They conducted a series of tests of Audi TTS is equipped with an autopilot. Moreover, inside the car did not have people. Researchers from Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab has launched this car to the race track not far from Sacramento California to learn how to behave electronic "pilot" in the absence of speed limits, but in the harsh conditions clearly defined route.
It turned out that the autopilot copes with this task. He clearly fit in all the turns, slowing down on them and picking up speed on the straight sections of the track. And the maximum rate of speed when it reached 193 kilometers per hour.

Of course, racing is a struggle not only of engines and automotive technology, but also characters that have riders. So watch the race cars with the autopilot people will be interested. But the essence of the research of Stanford's Dynamic Design Lab is not trying to create a virtual replacement for Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso, but in an effort to prove that artificial intelligence can cope with the speed.





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