The formula E test race between self-driving cars on professional track which was conducted by Roborace at The Puerto Madero street circuit, Bueno Aires didn't particularly ended as planned.
The Roborace's two test vehicles (DevBots) battled it out on the circuit at a reasonably quick 115MPH, but one of the cars crashed after it took a turn too aggressively. The racing league was quick to tout the safety advantages of crashing autonomous cars although no drivers were harmed, but it's clear that the technology is still rough around the edges.
The race series organisers won't fulfill its dream of full-scale driverless competition until it knows the cars can navigate on their own without making unforced errors, and that means subjecting them to race-like conditions. While it'll be difficult to completely avoid crashes, the vehicles have to be intelligent enough that most of the starting lineup in a given race will cross the finish line.
Despite the self-driving cars qualifications as fully autonomous that attracted a lot big names like Apple, Google and Blackberry in auto-mobile production, it's obvious that the technology is not yet perfectly safe on the road despite not actually allowed on some roads anyway.
Hmmmm technology is still making waves
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