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If anyone has read the Ian M Banks books then what he wrote about is what is happening.
We don't have the "minds" and the physiology of his stories but things are moving that way. Fascinating. |
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Calvin used to train in same gym as me when he was climbing the racing ladder! Funny how some people never lose their native accent, and yet others change completely..... I'm watching RLM stream, so no ads and Hindy's accent instead!
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This has just popped up in my email. It's about the Future of Motorsport in the Autonomous vehicle age.
Have a read. Worthy of a thread of its own (is there one already?) or shall we just bat it about in here for a couple of pages and see how people feel before deciding whether to pin it to a noticeboard? http://myemail.constantcontact.com/T...id=mjS_LcP3VFc Last edited by grantp; 29 Jan 2017 at 15:17. |
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It was the question about "Will it only be historic racing that is left?" (Or words to that effect) that caught my attention. If that turned out to be the case would it be good for the continuation of the Historic scene as we see it now? Or would it change it to the point that we old codgers would no longer find it involving? More to the point, perhaps, would there still be the breadth of infrastructure - circuits, clubs, engineering support, fuel, etc., to sustain the fun at anything like a grass roots level? And looking not too far out, although possibly beyond the point at which we might still retain enough brain power to have any interest (bauble excepted of course), will it be possible transport "stuff" around the country and further afield in order to satisfy the urge to go racing? |
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IMHO- I think it will be a while before we have autonomous cars racing. There's still liability / legality issues to be resolved before they can be used on roads.....
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I'm sure it's all possible, but a driverless race? I'm not so sure about that happening any time soon. Too many 'what ifs'!
If it does ever happen maybe Formula E would be a good place to try it....... |
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Heck they could even be dummies in the things anyway, probably have a real person jump in on the slow down lap for the finish. |
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Just full size remote controlled cars after all, though with more onboard intelligence. Granted the motivation for taking part may have changed somewhat. No need for marshals. Easy to set a controlled pace speed if some cleanup is required by a crash crew although one assumes that after a little development and absent the human factor, crashes and incidents will be few an far between unless programmed in. No problem with spectators either - like now really. Few enough they should be easy to control. I thought they were already trying it in Formula E. The drivers only do the press conferences and podiums don't they? (So I heard ...) |
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They're not even remote control cars are they? They're totally autonomous using sat nav type tech to find and learn their way round the track. Not hitting each other should be a doddle, and without human cock ups you'll get cars racing to their limit for the whole race. Fascinating. For engineers. Pretty rubbish for the rest of us.
As worrying is something you may have missed - the SIM race supporting the LA Formula E race. $1m prize fund for a glorified Playstation. It is a genuine threat to internal combustion engined sport. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk |
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Chess grand master? Max Mosley said he always wanted F1 to be a game of chess. Whatever it won't need to be a "driver", a squidgy bit with huge bravery, a lot of talent and just a dash of madness.
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I could see some potential for auctioning the drives $10M buys you solo rights, $1M you share with 9 others. $10 you share with 1M others. That sort of thing. |
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You need to look into Sim racing, I-racing, call it what you will. It's getting big and will soon be mainstream. There is a whole new generation that are not interested in the internal combustion engine.
Autonomous racing will be for the constructors and requires a track, you need nothing other than a PC and an Internet connection for I-racing. It will energise the masses. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk |
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A man climbed into his new all-electric, computer controlled, satellite navigated wonder car, and pressed a button on his Super Smart Phone.
The car purred into life and a recorded voice informed him that "You are being driven in the most advanced car ever built, it can drive itself, just tell it where you want to go and it will take you there by the quickest, most efficient route. It has every safety feature known to man, it is totally automatic, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go .....!" Be warned. |
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The only thing wrong there Bauble s 'purred' into life. There will be no engine. There will be no sound.
Yes it's going to happen. Maybe not in our lifetimes but the signposts are there. As long as the cars are genuinely autonomous and not overseen or driven by a public sector worker safe in his bunker. Could be fun, the Marxist overlord who won't let the car turn right, or the liberal one where the cars zig zag up the road and dither at junctions or the Trumptonian who just bulldozes straight on, totally ignoring public cries to follow the road signs! Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk |
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Midgetman, we must all club together and buy our own country, there must be plenty going cheap, and set up an Historic Government passing decrees allowing racing on public roads, no extraneous safety measures, and state sponsored races.
We will call it Utopia. I will stand for the position of President, and receive overwhelming support to run the country as a true democratic dictatorship. Bernie Bauble |
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