Could this be the future of F1? A self-driving racing car that can go at speeds of up to 185mph is aiming to one day replace Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. The Dallara Super Formula SF23 will rely on the latest artificial intelligence (AI) to navigate and overtake its rivals on the world's most iconic race tracks. The Italian carmaker today unveiled the driverless model at tech conference Gitex in Dubai ahead of the first autonomous car race next April at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Rather than rely on driver skill, 10 teams of engineers will compete to design the cleverest algorithm to beat each other and claim the £1.85m prize money.

Last weekend was supposed to be Roborace's big moment. The driverless car championship, which has been under development for about year, was slated to make its first public demonstration in Hong Kong during the season opener of Formula E, an all-electric urban racing series. It's what makes the successes so glorious, and the setbacks so frustrating. Roborace is documenting all of it--the good and the bad--in a docu-series that aims to capture the process of creating the world's first artificial intelligence, driverless electric racing series. The first episode was released Friday.

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If Formula One cars resemble those crazy birds-of-paradise, subject to the whims of evolution, the Roborace car looks like a fish you'd find waddling around a cave--built to fit a world that has little in common with the one humans know. The global motorsports series, created by UK VC fund Kinetik, is set to launch next year as part of Formula E, the all-electric racing series now in its second season. Roborace, which just unveiled the design for its race cars, is meant to promote autonomous driving and offer software developers a high-profile, competitive venue for honing their work. The teams will share hardware--everyone gets the same car--but develop their own software. After all, that's the stuff that matters when it comes to navigating a crowded track at speeds nearing 200 mph.