A racecar with nobody at the wheel snaked around another to snatch the lead on an oval track at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday in a first-of-its-kind high-speed match between self-driving vehicles.
Members of Italian-American team PoliMOVE cheered as their Formula 1-style racecar, nicknamed ‘Minerva,’ repeatedly passed a rival entered by South Korean team Kaist.
Minerva was doing nearly 115 miles per hour when it blew past the Kaist car, easily beating the top speed hoped for by race organizers and winning the $150,000 top prize.
But every racer was deemed a winner by organizers who saw the real victory as the fact that self-driving algorithms could handle the high-speed competition.
The TII EuroRacing autonomous race car passes the TUM Autonomous Motorsport car during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on January 7
A racecar with nobody at the wheel snaked around another to snatch the lead on an oval track at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Friday in a…
