{"id":7952,"date":"2026-10-01T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7952"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:45:30","slug":"2-driverless-cars-crashed-going-155-mph-that-could-be-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7952","title":{"rendered":"2 Driverless Cars Crashed Going 155 mph. That Could Be a Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">The grandstands erupted<\/span> with shock as engineers clutched their heads in the paddock. One driverless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/mario-kart-ghost-car-formula-1-nascar-indycar\/\" class=\"text link\">race car<\/a>, produced by the company PoliMove, slammed into Unimore\u2019s slowing vehicle in an event held by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">At the famous racing track in Imola, Italy, Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, both cars crashed in an area called Rivazza. This is the circuit\u2019s final sequence, made up of corners that are notoriously difficult to navigate. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/lego-formula-1-drivable-big-builds\/\" class=\"text link\">Formula 1<\/a> champions have met a similar fate here. But this time, the impact posed no danger to the drivers because there weren\u2019t any.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Launched in 2024, A2RL sought to introduce self-driving cars to the motorsport to test the boundaries of their current capabilities. And this year\u2019s race at Imola revealed those edges, demonstrating of the gap between the computational abilities of autonomous vehicles and their capacity to respond when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/self-driving-cars-are-interfering-with-first-responders-feds-arent-happy\/\" class=\"text link\">something goes wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Only two of the five cars in the final completed the race. The UAE\u2019s Kinetiz finished first, followed by Germany\u2019s Constructor Racing. PoliMove clocked in at third place, although its battered entrant had to be replaced for the podium ceremony. Two-time winner TUM withdrew its car after it developed a brake problem during the formation lap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Participating teams had just nine days of physical testing before the race, in conditions that included rain and hail. This also happened to be the league\u2019s first international competition away from its usual testing ground at Abu Dhabi\u2019s Yas Marina Circuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">So why choose one of motorsport\u2019s most <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.autodromoimola.it\/en\/track\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.autodromoimola.it\/en\/track\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autodromoimola.it\/en\/track\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unforgiving<\/a> tracks?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cBecause everybody can do \u2018easy\u2019, right?\u201d says Nicola Palarchi, engineering director at Aspire, the company that founded A2RL. \u201cWe have to show we go where it matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Palarchi made it abundantly clear that autonomous racing did not intend to compete with human racing, but rather stay its own motorsport. It could even support the latter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Because autonomous racing is pitched as more than spectacle: It\u2019s a laboratory with guardrails. Its proponents describe it as a way to test perception, prediction, and vehicle control at extreme speeds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-self-driving-cars-might-change-crash-testing-forever\/\" class=\"text link\">without endangering<\/a> a human driver. These are all factors in the safety of driverless cars in the real world, and so measuring the limits at which these vehicles succeed\u2014or perhaps more importantly fail\u2014can inform future improvements in the technology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The first hurdle is perception. The vehicle\u2019s sensors identify its location and surroundings, informing planning software that then chooses a trajectory. Finally, the control system translates that decision into steering, acceleration, and braking. Racing makes each of these stages more challenging, since at high speeds, vehicles have less time to interpret incomplete information, predict another car\u2019s movements and execute an evasive maneuver.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/2-driverless-cars-crashed-going-155-mph-that-could-be-a-good-thing\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grandstands erupted with shock as engineers clutched their heads in the paddock. One driverless race car, produced by the company PoliMove, slammed into Unimore\u2019s slowing vehicle in an event held by the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL). At the famous racing track in Imola, Italy, Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, both cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[542,273,1377,804,541,437],"class_list":["post-7952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-auto-racing","tag-autonomous-cars","tag-lidar","tag-motorsports","tag-racing","tag-self-driving-cars"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2 Driverless Cars Crashed Going 155 mph. 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