The Worlds First AI Powered Race Was A Big Mess! | A2RL Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League

I've never heard an announcer so excited to see cars go so slow. 😂

Considering the "Stroll overtake" I'd say it was pretty brave to have a human driver on the track vs an AI...

Dude that shot of the heavy metal music and the F1 robot doing 35KPH / cut to the competitors sitting still 😂

Actually DARPA put on the first autonomous vehicle race. I helped start Axion racing back in 2003 when the DARPA Grand Challenge was announced. It was a race in the Mojave Desert from Barstow to Primm Nevada. They gave out a 1 million prize for anyone that would have completed the course as well as DARPA contracts to go with. Also my vehicle, Spirit, was number one qualifier at California Speedway for The Big Race. We also, with a 94 Jeep Cherokee and $750,000, were the first autonomous vehicle to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado 8 years before Google did it.

You'd think with no meat-based driver on board they could relax some safety rules.

"The world's most nervous man" @ 1:49 had me dying 😭 🤣

Ai destruction derby would be fun. No idea why they started with F1

The edit of the Hailey's "chase" was perfect. Chef's kiss!

robots suddenly stood up for themselves like "nope didn't sign up to be a racer"

Didn’t it occur to anyone that maybe the concept should be tried with model cars on something like a go-kart track, before going full-scale?

From a technical POV this is just amazing. I imagine race cars without ALL the FIA's safety rules just blazing at incredible speeds around race tracks. Imagine the spectacular crashes, lol. Cars with spikes and banana's to eliminate the competitor you say ? lol, so much could be done.

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That was actually hilarious

The guitar v crickets juxtaposition at the end of the race killed me 😂

In 2004 the DAARPA Grand Challenge was created as a contest for autonomous vehicles to race across 132 miles the desert - not a single vehicle finished, and many crashed or simply shut down in the first few minutes. One year later the Stanford team completed the race in 6 hours, and every other team finished. That was 2005... Take home message : these cars have terrible AI, but that will change very quickly.

That was funny, embarrassing, and impressive all in one go. 2 Months to program a car to do that when you consider all the lights, extra lanes, and everything else that's going on around the track and cars actaully made a full lap, that is impressive. Thanks for showing this, keep up the good work. I would imagine here will be a good leap forward for the next race, the teams will have gathered a lot of information and feedback from this race, which they will them use to improve the control of the cars. I wonder how well a Tesla would do around one of these circuits?

They gave only 2 months because, they wanted it to be a joke of a series and then they can kill the project because it's a joke

Those aero fins and camber really came in handy on that constructer car. Otherwise it might have lost traction and slid off the course

YOOOOO, that fireworks show was the BEST that I’ve EVER seen on video. Can’t imagine how awesome it must have been in person. The “race” was a joke, but that display was absolutely amazing! 😎

I would love to see the car Brands compete here. Like Tesla. Then we could see how good their "autopilot" really is.