A standalone race car completes the legendary Goodwood Hillclimb 1.16 mile unmanned human – BGR

The Robocar, from a company called Roborace, is a thing of beauty. Plunging lines, wing-shaped arches on the wheels – a beautiful and elegant design. And that has only added a major achievement to his abilities.

The car successfully completed a fully autonomous race at the Speed ​​Hillclimb Festival in front of 55,000 people at the Goodwood Estate in England. This completion required navigating the 1.16 mile course using artificial intelligence – the first time this was done without a human pilot in 25 years of history.

The car – designed by Daniel Simon, an automotive futurist who worked Films like Tron: Legacy and Oblivion – will also try to repeat the same thing Saturday and Sunday.

"We are delighted that the team has succeeded," said Rod Chong, deputy general manager of Roborace in a statement about the completion of this flagship project and we hope that # It will draw attention to the spectacular progress made in the automotive industry. "Robocar is an ambbadador of future technologies that we will see on our roads and we hope that inspiring stunts like this will change perceptions Public Autonomous Vehicles. "

Charles Gordon-Lennox, founder of the Festival, qualified race car to complete the race without human badistance.

The car is powered by four 135 kW electric motors that are used to drive each wheel, resulting in a vehicle of over 500 horsepower.The car also takes data from inputs that include Lidar, radar and GPS as well as ultrasonic sensors and camera.

We have already talked about the design of Robocar. revealed in March 2016, around the same time, Roborace announced his work with Simon.

Simon saw it as a wave to gather all his pbadions into one job, these pbadions including racing, design and advanced technology. He has also been working with race engineers and aerodynamicists for quite some time now.

As for the Robocar itself, it uses a variety of sensors around the car to give it 360 degrees of vision. These sensors give the car enough information to determine its position on something like competition hill and to detect surfaces that can be trained with the help of deep neural networks.

Roborace also provides an API for teams that then adds his AI driver algorithm to the vehicle. The company says the development of Robocar's automated driving system at Goodwood was led by automotive technology company Arrival.