Cheddar News dives deep into the future of autonomous driving at the raceway.

Cheddar News dives deep into the future of autonomous driving at the raceway. Michelle Castillo checks in from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Tech Check: The Future Of Autonomous Driving

time Now for your daily tech check the future of autonomous driving may be a lot closer than you think. But don't worry because safety is still at the top of mind when developing at these vehicles and this technology. In fact, that's one of the priorities of the Indy autonomous challenge or waste where young minds but autonomous driving systems through extreme tests. Cheddar news, Michele Castelli was at the historic Las Vegas motor speedway to check it all out, take a look. The top drivers in the world have competed at the historic Las Vegas motor speedway. But the difference is this race where the cars will go upwards of 170 MPH, there won't be any drivers. Welcome to the Indy autonomous challenge where young minds are putting autonomous driving systems through extreme tests. What happens in this garage will shape the future of the auto industry? The indiana thomas, challenges in R and D. Development platform for college students to work with autonomous vehicles just because of the fact that at 120 140 miles an hour, you start to see issues out of the software that you really don't see in these urban environments. These cars operate on the very edge of what is physically possible here? Artificial intelligence is pushed to its limit. So it's how do you manage that? How do you deal with it? How do you predict during a race during an event? How that performance may degrade and how your controllers and your algorithms need to adapt to it. Teams are focused on collaboration more than competition. The goal to push innovation in the A. V space, I'd probably say that rather than trying to implement unique strategies, we're all trying to be the best at perfecting out our bugs and our problems. We're trying to do it quicker than the rest to achieve that basic autonomy. The car specs are the same but the racist thin margins come down to refining the algorithm. We're developing software. It's gonna eventually hopefully be used on the road is going to inspire much more agile autonomy. Although the drivers are machines, the sport still delivers the on and off track drama. You come to expect. We started to slide and eventually hit the so we've now realized that, you know, we should probably monitor when we should actually change gears. Also definitely monitor track conditions because if it is called it can be risky. It's the high speed stakes that provide the learnings that will one day make autonomous driving safer for everyone. A lot of what the public gets to see about autonomous driving is Tesla had another crash into a sign or something. But with this it's easy to get excited about it and it's easy to see it as something that's more fun at C. E. S in Las Vegas. I'm Michelle cecilia. Okay, so if you want to know more about how technology is transforming the auto industry, be sure to tune in for tech check. That's cheddar news, month long deep dive into CS 20 at 23 such cool stuff that Michelle was able to work on out there in Vegas.