[2ndAmend]

Once upon a time, a driver either had to be a mechanic to drive a car, or needed to have a mechanic on board. Then came technology. The bendix, centrifugal and vacuum advance, automatic transmissions, fuel injection, sensors, ECM’s, autonomous vehicles, and now autonomous racing. Move over Shelby, Miles, Jackie Stewart, Foyt, the Allisons, Big Daddy, King Richard 43, and the dozens of other legends. The future of racing now belongs to couch potatoes living in mom’s basement.

"The students who program these cars are not mechanics; most of them knew nothing about racing," said IndyCar specialist Lee Anne Patterson.

"We taught them about racing."

Self-driving race cars zip into history at CES

 

[frictioncircle]

I have been a F1 fan since the 80's......I also see the popularity of drone racing and rockem sockem robot wars with young people enjoying this matrix style entertainment/competition....I'm worried we may see a world with dwindling bodies in cars....

 

[beep-beep-vroom]

Remember sledding in the winter? Find a big snow covered hill, get to the top, settle yourself into or on top of your sled. Inch toward the tipping point, then gravity takes hold. Try to exert some kind of navigational control. The roar of the sled sliding down the hill, the sudden rush and acceleration, the physical sensation of your body parting the air at high speed. Maybe you 'get air'. The fear, the excitement, the adrenaline. The omg at the end of it. And then trudging back to the top to do it again.

Now imagine sledding, but instead of you sitting on the sled you put a manikin in the sled. With the tip of your boot you nudge it toward the tipping point and down it goes. You stand there at the top of the hill looking at the sled and manikin disappear into the distance.

This is what comes to my mind.

 

[Frosty]

Might as well kill the sport. If the cars are at least driven remotely you would still at least have some form of skill kept. Identical cars run by a computer means racing turns into WWF wresting where outcomes are identified prior to the race and the actual race is just coriography. Equals..... boring.

 

[S8ER01Z]

Might as well kill the sport. If the cars are at least driven remotely you would still at least have some form of skill kept. Identical cars run by a computer means racing turns into WWF wresting where outcomes are identified prior to the race and the actual race is just coriography. Equals..... boring.

It will honestly die on its own once this happens.

 

[Rockster]

Here's the typical EV race car fan:

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