Self-driving race cars zip into history at CES


The PoliMOVE autonomous race car from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and University of Alabama drives during the Indy Autonomous Challenge during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Jan 7, 2022. Members of Italian-American team PoliMOVE cheered as their Formula 1 racecar, nicknamed ‘Minerva’, repeatedly passed a rival entered by South Korean team Kaist. — AFP

LAS VEGAS: A racecar with nobody at the wheel snaked around another to snatch the lead on an oval track at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Jan 7 in an unprecedented high-speed match between self-driving vehicles.

Members of Italian-American team PoliMOVE cheered as their Formula 1 racecar, nicknamed “Minerva”, repeatedly passed a rival entered by South Korean team Kaist.

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