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Human versus autonomous car race ends before it begins | A2RL admits that this is a hard problem, and that's refreshing


A2RL recently traveled to Japan to pit its AI-driven car against former F1 driver Daniil Kvyat but it didn’t go so great.

That's a lifetime in a real human-to-human race, but an impressive amount of development for vehicles with 90 kg of computer hardware crammed into the cockpit of a super formula car. When asked by Ars what his biggest concern was being on the track with a vehicle that doesn't have a human behind the wheel, Kvyat said he has to "try to follow the car first to see what line it chooses and to understand where it is safe to race it. On the track, an autonomous vehicle might choose to deviate from the racing line around a corner because of a signal input that a human driver would ignore or fold into their driving based on their real-world experience.

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