A2RL. The AI are coming!!...
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...very very slowly. This weekend was the first Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League event. 8 teams with adapted 2023 Super Formula cars around Yas Marina. It didn't go well.
https://www.youtube.com/live/HZPj9iAWz-4?si=Z47C4M...
After about 30 minutes of chat, a car went around the track, then Daniel Kvyat went out with it to do some overtakes for a few laps. It went well. Later on there are qualifying sessions. Cars stopped for no reason, as in full on 4 wheel lock ups, cars went off the track. 4 cars went through to the 'race'. This was the first time there had been multiple cars in a race at the same time, it was started at a set pace for 2 laps, then it was green flag, and all the cars didn't know what to do. Somehow they restarted it all and declared a winner. Don't watch the whole thing, skip to the cars on track and be safe in the knowledge that AI racing is nowhere near ready yet. This should have been a private test, not a race event.
I had wondered why things had gone quiet on that Roborace driverless car that was supposed to support Formula E events, if that's at this level too, they're probably right to keep quiet about it.
Found a 10 minute sum up video of the event. I'd missed the bit in the thumbnail where one of the cars did a Lance Stroll.
https://www.youtube.com/live/HZPj9iAWz-4?si=Z47C4M...
After about 30 minutes of chat, a car went around the track, then Daniel Kvyat went out with it to do some overtakes for a few laps. It went well. Later on there are qualifying sessions. Cars stopped for no reason, as in full on 4 wheel lock ups, cars went off the track. 4 cars went through to the 'race'. This was the first time there had been multiple cars in a race at the same time, it was started at a set pace for 2 laps, then it was green flag, and all the cars didn't know what to do. Somehow they restarted it all and declared a winner. Don't watch the whole thing, skip to the cars on track and be safe in the knowledge that AI racing is nowhere near ready yet. This should have been a private test, not a race event.
I had wondered why things had gone quiet on that Roborace driverless car that was supposed to support Formula E events, if that's at this level too, they're probably right to keep quiet about it.
Found a 10 minute sum up video of the event. I'd missed the bit in the thumbnail where one of the cars did a Lance Stroll.
Edited by ajprice on Monday 29th April 08:00
I was going to go and take a look at this on Saturday, to see what it was all about and if the robot cars had got any better since the last time that tech was demonstrated.
The human driver (ex-F1 driver Daniil Kvyat) didn’t look like the pace was troubling him too much, and he managed to make it around every corner without crashing the car - which was better than half of the autonomous cars!
That said, I do expect the pace of these will pick up quite quickly, as each running of the cars gives them a whole load more data points to add to their driving model. Must be a fun project to be involved in for the competitors though, at least something practical rather than theoretical.
The human driver (ex-F1 driver Daniil Kvyat) didn’t look like the pace was troubling him too much, and he managed to make it around every corner without crashing the car - which was better than half of the autonomous cars!
That said, I do expect the pace of these will pick up quite quickly, as each running of the cars gives them a whole load more data points to add to their driving model. Must be a fun project to be involved in for the competitors though, at least something practical rather than theoretical.
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