the future of autonomous driving may be a lot closer
than you think. But don't worry because safety is
still at the top of mind when developing at these
vehicles and this technology. In fact that's one of
the priorities of the Indy autonomous challenge or waste where
young minds but autonomous driving systems through extreme tests.
Cheddar news, Michele Castelli was at the historic Las
Vegas motor speedway to check it all out, take
a look. The top drivers in the world have
competed at the historic Las Vegas motor speedway. But
the difference is this race where the cars will go
upwards of 170 MPH, there won't be any drivers
welcome to the Indy autonomous challenge where young minds are
putting autonomous driving systems through extreme tests. What happens
in this garage will shape the future of the auto
industry? The indian thomas challenges in R and D
. Development platform for college students to work with autonomous
vehicles just because of the fact that at 120 140
miles an hour you start to see issues out of
the software that you really don't see in these urban
environments. These cars operate on the very edge of
what is physically possible here, artificial intelligence is pushed
to its limit. So it's how do you manage
that? How do you deal with it? How
do you predict during a race? During an event
? How that performance may degrade and how your controllers
and your algorithms need to adapt to it. Teams
are focused on collaboration more than competition. The goal
to push innovation in the A. V. Space
, I'd probably say that rather than trying to implement
unique strategies, we're all trying to be the best
at perfecting out our bugs and our problems. We're
trying to do it quicker than the rest to achieve
that basic autonomy. The car specs are the same
, but the racist thin margins come down to refining
the algorithm. We're developing software. It's gonna eventually
hopefully be used on the road. It's going to
inspire much more agile autonomy. Although the drivers are
machines, the sport still delivers the on and off
track drama you've come to expect. We started to
slide and eventually hit the so we've now realized that
you know, we should probably monitor when we should
actually change gears. Also, definitely monitor track conditions
because if it is called it can be risky.
It's the high speed stakes that provide the learnings that
will one day make autonomous driving safer for everyone.
A lot of what the public gets to see about
autonomous driving is Tesla had another crash into a sign
or something. But with this it's easy to get
excited about it and it's easy to see it as
something that's more fun at CS in las Vegas.
I'm Michelle cecilia