This weekend during the Formula E Racing Series held in Buenos Aires, a one-of-a-kind Roborace has been organized in parallel, this time the vehicles would be controlled by software, that is, we are talking about autonomous cars. This type of peculiar competition is undoubtedly much less intense than when human beings are driving, it would be missing more, but they could collaborate in an interesting way to the development of autonomous driving. However, it seems that they do not work as well as it seems, and is that The first Roborace autonomous car race has ended in catastrophe, no injured of course.
This event has been known as the first that does not have a single driver, in fact, it is the first time that RoboRace uses two cars on the same circuit and at the same time. Fortunately, one of the advantages of not having drivers in autonomous cars is that there are no injuries in the event of accidents, and they have been. The DevBot 2 had an accident, What could have remarkably market the hopes of those who had developed software for such vehicles that are capable of driving at speeds of up to 185 kilometers per hour.
We will think that it should not be so difficult if a Tesla Model S is capable of driving for many kilometers without suffering any kind of accident. But here we are faced with a quite different reality, and that is that a Tesla for example is guided by lanes and vehicles around it, in addition to the signs it reads, however, these cars move at a speed that makes them difficult to control even for pilots, so it would be a litmus test for autonomous driving, rather than an example of its capabilities. So, we will continue with our eye on autonomous driving, this does not seem like an indication of quality.