https://www.web2carz.com/autos/news/7341/if-you-think-autonomous-cars-are-boring-watch-this-electric-race-car-hit-the-goodwood-track If You Think Autonomous Cars are Boring, Watch This Electric Race Car Hit the Goodwood Track July 13th, 2018 Amos Kwon
[images https://www.web2carz.com/images/articles/201807/roborace_robocar_with_team_1531407017_800x600.jpg Don't wait for the driver. He's not required https://www.web2carz.com/images/articles/201807/goodwood_track_1531407575_615x434.jpg goodwood track map ... built in 1948, consists of 2.4 miles of track with 7 turns. The Hillclimb takes place on 1.5 miles of the same track https://www.web2carz.com/images/articles/201807/roborace_robocar_allianz_1531407303_615x355.jpg Part Batmobile, part F1 car, and part Stealth Bomber, the Robocar looks pretty slick https://www.web2carz.com/images/articles/201807/roborace_robocar_driving_1531407201_615x345.jpg robocar in action videos https://youtu.be/RHYV1tDla9s Roborace: Human + Machine teams advancing autonomous driving technology. ... Roborace is the first-ever autonomous race car to complete the hillclimb at Goodwood. ... Videos from influencers and likeminded brands exploring the world of Roborace and autonomous driving technologies ... https://youtu.be/b6OHDlSnSo8 360 video of Robocar's autonomous Goodwood hillclimb ... ] British tradition meets the roboracing future Goodwood is a place to showcase a lot of automotive tradition, and this weekend's Goodwood Festival and Hillclimb promise to be hoot, as usual, enjoyed by young and old alike But this week is historic in that Roborace will have a fully autonomous race car take to the track with absolutely no driver behind the wheel. The future meets the past in full glory. See the Robocar take on the track as it did this past Wednesday. There will actually be two autonomous vehicles taking on the Goodwood Hillclimb. One is a vintage Mustang, which actually uses a pre-mapped course for the software, whereas the Robocar is more advanced, navigating the track as it drives. The Robocar uses 360-degree vision that uses numerous sensor rather than GPS (since the track has copious amounts of tree cover that inhibit satellite communication). The Robocar has plenty of challenges, one of them being the narrow width of the track. The Mustang will actually have a real driver behind the wheel in case adjustments need to be made during the run or if the system fails completely. The Robocar doesn't even have a cockpit for a driver, so that option is out. Roborace will actually be a race that backs the Formula E electric Formula One series. Though there's no word on the Roborace series, the car itself has the chops. Roborace claims the car will have upwards of 500 horsepower, weigh in at a mere 2,149 lbs and hit 200 mph. Powered by four electric motors, torque will be near instantaneous. The Robocar should make an official run this weekend, with thousands of curious onlookers. Hopefully, things will go off without a hitch, and doubters will be silenced. Even though there's no driver in the Robocar, check out the perspective from what would normally be the driver's seat from Wednesday's historic run. [© web2carz.com] + (EVs& auton threaten BIG-oil) https://qz.com/1328710/self-driving-electric-cars-will-bring-about-peak-oil-demand-in-2036-says-wood-mackenzie/ The threat to oil is not just electric cars, but self-driving electric cars 16The phrase “peak oil” was coined to explain when the world’s supply of oil would start running out ... ... https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/15/former-real-epa-chief-big-oil-is-peddling-misinformation-about-electric-cars/ Former (Real) EPA Chief: Big Oil Is “Peddling Misinformation” About Electric Cars 2018/07/15 · 1d Christine Todd Whitman served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush back in 200... For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
