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.
hmm... I actually like watching drag races and NASCAR I don't know that I would be interested in Roboracing and I think a part of that is because I cheer for a racer. In the case of roboracing...what would I cheer? The company who built it? The paint job? I don't know! LOL
But don't get me wrong... I think robots pounding the hell out of each other is really cool. I'll watch that all day long. :)
I'm sure some people would be interested. It's a new type of sport
It is coming whether we like it or not.
I saw that movie with my son when it came out. Good fun. People seem to love stuff like Robot Wars. It will keep on developing.
I love that movie. However, prize money in dollars! WTF! Pay me in Bitcoin...
Part of me thinks that removing the human element will remove the living vicariously part of these kind of sports. We can all try to put ourselves in the place of the drivers -will it be the same when it is a machine?
Thank you for sharing!
We're reaching the stage where machines can beat us at these things. We'll have to see if people want to watch machines compete against each other
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I'm old school for the most part on this sort of progress but I'll adjust.
I don't expect people to give up doing the sport, but there will always be those trying something new.
I feel, that as an intelligent person, that they should keep robots out of the sport of racing. It is not about whether a robot would be better or worse at racing, it is about the sport.
It is also what young men will lose when they turn the age of 16 after robots have taken over driving.
We have scientists who should be thinking, if we perfect this, what will it do to the world. Of course it is not quite as evil as Auschwitz.
I think it's another type of sport and it won't replace the existing racing. It's a challenge like the DARPA challenges that have pushed the self-driving technology. I'd be quite happy for my car to drive me to work. It will eventually be safer than me doing it. Technology isn't evil, but it can be put to evil ends. That is our choice. The car put lots of people in the horse industry out of a job. Self-driving cars will do the same for a lot of drivers.
This is robot racing.
I wrote this as a comment, but it got too long, so I posted it as an article.
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Wow, you took it somewhere else :)