Self -driving maserati smashed autonomous speed record

Italy has produced many of the fastest racing car drivers in the world and now also the fastest AI. Self-driving software developed by a team at the largest science and tech university in the country has set a new record for the fastest speed that has been achieved in an autonomous car-a bladder formation of 197.7 miles per hour (318 km/h).

Researchers at the Polutecnico di Milano University worked with the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) to put a robo driver behind the wheel of a tailor-made Maserati MC20 coupé. This fire-breathing beast in the amount of $ 243,000 and 538 lb.ft (729 Nm) is a torque from its 3.0-liter V-6. It is designed at 325 km/h (202 miles per hour), which means that the AI ​​only stopped a little shortly before the MC20 ceiling.

The self -driving system held this performance during the 1000 Miglia Experience Florida in the Kennedy Space Center on February 23. It became a 4.5 km landing railway (2.8 miles long) and hit the previous record of 285 km/h last November.

This also has the previous record of 309.3 km/h, which was determined by the Polimove racing team (a joint project between the Pipecnico di Milano and the University of Alabama) in an IAC AV-21 racing car in April 2022.

See the driverless Maserati in the video below onto the runway. During the clip live telemetry data, two GPS units were used to record the speed of the car exactly, which is only a small piece below the screen displayed on the screen.

Paul Mitchell, CEO of Indy Autonomous Challenge, explained that this program can test not only for the show, but also the skills of self -driving technology under extreme conditions. “… we push AI driver software and robotics hardware to the absolute advantage,” he said.

Source: Indy autonomous challenge