Kick Those Shoes Off and Relax. It's the Delta 2017 Tea Break

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Yes, but although I’m sure it’s possible to get a car to drive itself around a circuit competitively, it will be different when there are 10 cars racing each other. That’s the autonomous bit- the ability for each car to think and calculate like a driver....

It will probably be like Tesla and have different modes that can be preprogrammed to activate under certain circumstances or be sent to the car from its master control base wherever that might be.

So you could have the teams choosing "Win at all costs" mode or "drive to a finish" mode or "weave unpredictably" mode which should be allowed, imo, when no human driver is involved as a means of disrupting whatever mode the competing car behind might be using.

I could image the technology and strategies converging so that "drive to a finish" mode is deployed for most of the race as the cars procession around for some time seeking "TV" exposure for as long as possible and then for the last lap or two they change into "Win at all costs"mode.

So nothing much changes compared to current F1 until the last lap or two ...