Roborace
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| Category | Autonomous car |
|---|---|
| Country | International |
| Inaugural season | 2016–17 |
| Drivers | 0 |
| Teams | 10 |
| Official website | roborace.com |
Roborace will be a motorsport championship with autonomously driving, electrically powered vehicles. The series will be held on the same tracks as the Formula E championship season, Roborace leasing the tracks and adapting them.[1] This will be the first global championship for driverless cars.[2]
The first race is intended to take place during the 2016–17 Formula E season, on the same circuits as the main championship. Ten teams, each with two driverless cars, will compete in one-hour races over the full season. All teams will have the same cars, but will develop their own real-time computing algorithms and artificial intelligence technologies.[1]
The cars will be manufactured by a company called Kinetik, which announced that the cars would be capable of top speeds of more than 300 km/h (190 mph).[3] They were designed by Daniel Simon.
References
- 1 2 "Formula E & Kinetik announce driverless support series". fiaformulae.com. 2015-11-27.
- ↑ "Formula E is planning the first racing series for driverless cars". engadget.com. 2015-11-28.
- ↑ "Formula E announces 300kph 'RoboRace' championship". wired.co.uk. 2015-11-27.