I wonder if it would be feasible to make a fleet of race cars that have self driving technology that has each car communicating with the others and monitoring the human drivers, with the car letting the human drive but able to step in if the human tries to do something that would cause a crash?
I bet you could make some pretty good money with such a fleet running open races that members of the public can pay to drive in.
The self driving system could keep track of the number and severity of its safety interventions which could be used to give time penalties at the end of the race [1], so that the winner is determined by the skills of the humans.
Besides racing, you could also do car chases that recreate scenarios from action movies. Add in something to simulate guns, and you could do scenarios where a car with a driver and a couple armed passengers is trying to escape a couple pursuing cars, each with a driver and armed passenger.
[1] Or maybe actually do the time penalties during the race. If the self driving system has to take over from you, it could slow you down for a bit before returning control to you.
I doubt race car drivers (who are better drivers than the average car driver) would want a computer to yank their steering or do something unexpected in a race.
Autonomous cars aren't necessarily better than race car drivers.. would be interesting if human racers and autonomous compete
There has been progress since the millenium on race traction control. In the beginning, it was a crut h for bad drivers. Some systems today are banned in racing. Both for ocassional advantange, and for not-occasional mishaps that endanger other drivers. It always seemed odd to me that tech not safe enough for racing is now mandated on the road.
I bet you could make some pretty good money with such a fleet running open races that members of the public can pay to drive in.
The self driving system could keep track of the number and severity of its safety interventions which could be used to give time penalties at the end of the race [1], so that the winner is determined by the skills of the humans.
Besides racing, you could also do car chases that recreate scenarios from action movies. Add in something to simulate guns, and you could do scenarios where a car with a driver and a couple armed passengers is trying to escape a couple pursuing cars, each with a driver and armed passenger.
[1] Or maybe actually do the time penalties during the race. If the self driving system has to take over from you, it could slow you down for a bit before returning control to you.