28-02-2017 18:30 via theverge.com

Up close with Roborace’s beautiful self-driving racecar

Self-driving race cars sounded ridiculous to me the first time I heard about the idea. Why not just televise CPU vs CPU Gran Turismo races while we’re at it? But at Mobile World Congress this week, Formula E boss Alejandro Agag and Roborace CEO Denis Sverdlov unveiled the Robocar with a compelling pitch: it’s all about trust.If we’re ever to get to a point where all cars are electric and autonomous, demonstrating that robots can drive themselves around complex tracks at 200mph
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