Self Racing Cars EPCC at The University of Edinburgh

Last week, along with EPCC's Alan Gray, I attended a workshop at Donington Park held by Roborace. For those who've not heard of Roborace, it's a project to build and race autonomous cars, along the lines of Formula 1 but without any drivers or human control of the cars. Actually, it's more like Formula E but without drivers, as the plan is for the cars to be electric. The workshop was to showcase their first set of development cars, called DevBots, that they have recently constructed to test their hardware and software. The reason we were attending was that Alan saw a presentation on Roborace at the GTC conference, where it was revealed that the NVidia Drive PX 2 platform is going to be used as the computing resource for the AI controlling the cars.