Taking drivers out of the Indy 500 won’t draw a bigger crowd. But taking experimental autonomous technology to the track is safer for our roads.
Autonomous race cars are not the gimmick you might think they are. No one is trying to replace human drivers at the track or the mechanical horse races you find at the casino. Instead, the Indy Autonomous Challenge pits the world's top universities against each other in a race to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies. The decision to develop the technology with high-speed racing, as exciting as it is, tackles a specific and under-researched area of consumer vehicles.
Mark Miles, president and CEO of the Penske Entertainment Corporation set Indycar on a path of growth after taking over as CEO in 2012. Looking to expand the impact of the resources at his disposal, he invited Thrun and Riley Brennan to brainstorm ideas at the Indy 500 in 2017. The race served as inspiration to solve edge-case highway driving scenarios by subjecting AV technology to the perils of open-wheel racing.
A one-off race at IMS was planned for 2021, with prize money and funding for vehicle development raised by the Indiana-based Lilly Endowment, one of the world's largest private philanthropic foundations. An open invitation was released, and at best, the IAC hoped for a dozen universities to respond. To everyone's shock and amazement, over 40 universities from around the world wanted in.
Remarkably, that's commercial equipment available to the public. Gaming computers often have more memory and processing power. This highlights the complexity of modern software-defined vehicles . Over 40 teams of 10 to 15 doctoral students worked nearly full-time for a year and a half toautonomously piloting the 450-hp Dallara—a task typically handled by a single human driver.
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