We've been hearing about driverless cars for the road, but there's also developments going on to get them onto the race track. I'd heard that were was going to be an autonomous car support race for Formula E, but hadn't been keeping up with the news. Just been reading about Roborace who are working on cars to compete in this.
Unfortunately one of the cars crashed in a demonstration event, but they will learn from that and nobody got hurt. The other car managed to avoid a dog than ran onto the track.
Would people want to watch this sort of racing? Does sport have to involve people? We have some ancient sports where animals race each other, so is this any different? People will have to develop the software to make it work. The cars may be able to do manoeuvres that people couldn't. It should certainly advance the technology as standard racing has for cars in general.
