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Autonomous racing car sets a new record at Indy
“We had to go for it. Today it turns out it was enough for the first American team to win the Indy Autonomous Challenge.”
“We knew what the car was capable of ... when everything looked good for our lap we had to go for it,” said team principal and University of Virginia professor Madhur Behl after the win. The specially hard part: they have to do it at speeds far surpassing what self-driving systems like Google’s Waymo, Tesla’s Full Self Driving, or General Motors’ Super Cruise have to manage. The Las Vegas race is held in early January in conjunction with CES, the Consumer Electronics Show with hundreds of thousands of attendees, so that’s an optimistic prediction.
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