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[Iremos]

The Google Driverless Car is a project by Google that involves developing technology for driverless cars. The project is currently being led by Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View

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The technology is surprisingly advanced. Yes there is no real life traffic in this video, but a closed circuit, the near or not so far future of motorsport? Notice how fast the car tackles the track. One can assume that average everyday drivers would not be able show this kind of precision and speed.

[nimbus111]

drone cars? sure why not but in motorsports its pointless.

[Wander]

It would not be motor sport any longer.

E: In normal traffic driving, sure. It'd be great.

Edited by Wander, 26 May 2012 - 00:30.

[Anonymous]

Driverless cars in motorsport, stupidest thing I've ever heard.

[Sardukar]

Defeats the purpose of watching sport.

[Tiakumosan]

We'll cheer for algorithms then.

My algorithm is better than yours

Edited by Tiakumosan, 26 May 2012 - 02:02.

[gm914]

We'll cheer for algorithms then.

My algorithm is better then yours

I can't believe Algorithm #4 got a penalty for that!

[nimbus111]

We'll cheer for algorithms then.

My algorithm is better then yours

[Cavani]

algorithm #4 and algorithm #6 incident is being investigated by the compilers -

algorithm #1 writes "abu dhabi and valencia are the best tracks ever"

algorithm #3 writes " fatal error: balance() not found"

[tabovilla]

now? near future? naaah forget it..

but say, 30 years from now? just think about this.. , we wouldn't be cheering for drivers anymore, but actual teams and their developers/programmers etc, the agressiveness built into their AI to compete and win without risking a crash or getting disqualified etc..

I'm not saying it WILL replace human motorsports someday, but hey, 30 years can change a lot of things...

Edited by tabovilla, 26 May 2012 - 01:56.

[Jimisgod]

algorithm #1 has returned after 3 years retirement and is now outdated and crashes into everything. Sorry...

[Aieljose]

Never say never but if it did happen i wouldn't watch it.

[wepmob2000]

Algorithm fanboys........

[CaptnMark]

algorithm #1 has returned after 3 years retirement and is now outdated and crashes into everything. Sorry...

Robowars

[sergeym]

I dont think it will replace normal autosport completely, but we may see separate AI contolled series. One advantage is that not having to worry about safety, AI contolled cars may have higher speeds and more wheel to wheel action.

Edited by sergeym, 26 May 2012 - 05:14.

[Dolph]

Remote control cars are already possible and you don't see them raced on F1 level. AI controlled cars will also be possible but they will not replace F1 drivers. Simply because there needs to be a championship for drivers and people are much more interested in who the drivers champion is than who the constructors champion is.

Edited by Dolph, 26 May 2012 - 06:02.

[macfannz]

It would be curiosity only. Who would watch it? No one watching it = no sponsors = no money.

[jimjimjeroo]

kinda already exists....



http://www.youtube.c...;feature=relmfu

Edited by jimjimjeroo, 26 May 2012 - 07:49.