Autonomous Audi TTS overcomes race track at speeds up to 72 km / h
A few days ago, Audi proudly announced that the self-driving car Audi TTS conquered the peak of Pikes - a steep mountain in Colorado. The average slope of the track is 7%, and the steepness of the turns has become legendary among fans of motor racing.
Unlike all previous experiments with autonomous cars, the developers of the robot Audi TTS have set the goal of not driving safety, but maximum speed.
The 20-kilometer track to the top with 156 turns is a traditional competition place for race drivers who have come here since 1994. The robot Audi TTS was able to drive up the mountain in 27 minutes. Objectively speaking, this is a weak result. Among professional race drivers, the track record is 10: 01.408. It was installed on July 21, 2007 by Japanese race car driver Nobuhiro Monster Tajima on a Suzuki Sport XL7 car.
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In fairness, we note that the power of racing cars in competitions is approaching 900 hp, while the Audi TTS has only 265 hp. According to experts, by car of this class the best racer-man could not climb the mountain faster than 17 minutes.
In reality, the ascent of the Audi TTS to the peak of Pikes took place back in September, they just reported about it just now.
The maximum speed of the robot-car did not exceed 72.5 km / h. However, this is only the beginning. Surely the time is not far off when artificial intelligence will overtake manned vehicles on well-known tracks. In computer simulators, they do it - the computer is able to calculate the ideal trajectory and adhere to it 100%, while absolutely controlling all the characteristics of the undercarriage in real time.
Of course, in order for a robot to overtake a person, all parameters and angles of each turn must be loaded in advance to within a centimeter, the ideal trajectory with different conditions of adhesion to the track, etc. must be calculated in advance. If during the race it rains or the pressure in the wheel drops, no supercomputer can recalculate its programs.
On the other hand, the autonomous Audi TTS with a score of 27 minutes surely overcame the track to the top of Pikes faster than most of us, drivers without special racing training, could have done. That is, robots are already close to the average driver's level.
Unlike all previous experiments with autonomous cars, the developers of the robot Audi TTS have set the goal of not driving safety, but maximum speed.
The 20-kilometer track to the top with 156 turns is a traditional competition place for race drivers who have come here since 1994. The robot Audi TTS was able to drive up the mountain in 27 minutes. Objectively speaking, this is a weak result. Among professional race drivers, the track record is 10: 01.408. It was installed on July 21, 2007 by Japanese race car driver Nobuhiro Monster Tajima on a Suzuki Sport XL7 car.
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In fairness, we note that the power of racing cars in competitions is approaching 900 hp, while the Audi TTS has only 265 hp. According to experts, by car of this class the best racer-man could not climb the mountain faster than 17 minutes.
In reality, the ascent of the Audi TTS to the peak of Pikes took place back in September, they just reported about it just now.
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The maximum speed of the robot-car did not exceed 72.5 km / h. However, this is only the beginning. Surely the time is not far off when artificial intelligence will overtake manned vehicles on well-known tracks. In computer simulators, they do it - the computer is able to calculate the ideal trajectory and adhere to it 100%, while absolutely controlling all the characteristics of the undercarriage in real time.
Of course, in order for a robot to overtake a person, all parameters and angles of each turn must be loaded in advance to within a centimeter, the ideal trajectory with different conditions of adhesion to the track, etc. must be calculated in advance. If during the race it rains or the pressure in the wheel drops, no supercomputer can recalculate its programs.
On the other hand, the autonomous Audi TTS with a score of 27 minutes surely overcame the track to the top of Pikes faster than most of us, drivers without special racing training, could have done. That is, robots are already close to the average driver's level.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/108669/
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