Roborace crash showcases how difficult autonomous driving is
One of the major points to defend motorsports is how it supposedly helps develop new tech for cars. If you think about Roborace, that’s the strongest reason for creating it. Apart from saving some pilots’ lives in very fast and eventually dangerous races, the category aims to help develop autonomous driving. Ironically, it depends on having it ready to even start. A crash shows not only the competition may be distant: self-driving cars also are.
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