Autonomous race car sets new land speed record

The autonomous racing team from the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) has set a new land speed record for self-driving cars.

cars, recording an average speed of 309.3 km/h on the space shuttle runway at Kennedy Space Center, USA.

As reported in the Indy Autonomous Challenge press release, a new engine, 30% more powerful, helped them set the record. It will be used in cars in the next competitions.

Record car, Dallara AV-21, equippedLiDAR, six cameras, sensors, four radar automatic drives, nVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 GPU and autonomous driving system, demonstrated an upgraded 4-cylinder turbocharged engine.

The Indy Autonomous Challenge is a race withfull-scale autonomous cars. The main concept is that teams use identical cars and compete to create the most effective algorithms for controlling them.

The PoliMOVE racing team is a joint projectPolitecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama, won the world's first autonomous car race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway back in January, earning $150,000 in the process.

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