Maserati MC20 is equipped with several lidar, cameras and sensors Demonstration Vehicle hit nearly 200 km / hi Kennedy Space Center Another Autonomous Mc20 Cielo walked on the streets of Florida
Maserati has just set a new autonomous speed record in the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when the drop-down beautiful MC20 Supercar hit 197.7 km / h without a human behind the wheel.
The initiative is a partnership between Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) and Politecnico di Milano, Italy’s largest scientific technological university, with the couple with the aim of testing the very limits of hardware, computer power and artificial intelligence, where it relates to advanced levels of autonomous driving.
The smart crew at Politecnico Di Milano, which forms part of a team that specializes exclusively in autonomous driving at the university, managed to hit 192.8 km / hi its IAC AV-21 racing car in 2022, but returned to one of the world’s longest runways of 15,000 feet (2.8 miles) to try to beat it using Maerati’s 630hp Street.
According to the team, pushing the MC20 to almost 200 km / h without a driver behind the steering wheel “Demorithms’ Robustness and Reliability Developed for Autonomous Driving”, scientific director of the project Professor Sergio Matteo Savaresi explained.
Autonomous Maserati MC20 goes 197 mph (318 km/h) without driver – YouTube
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To further demonstrate how far the team has come in terms of autonomous driving characteristics, the team also brought its convertible Maserati MC20 Cielo, which was specially equipped with Lidar, Camera and Sensor Technology.
This drop-top model managed to finish about 60 km (about 37 miles) of the famous difficult 1000 Miglia Road Race in Italy two years ago without a driver behind the wheel.
It continued to parade the streets of the southeastern US state under 1000 Miglia experience Florida to show “the excellent Italian research” according to the team.
That said, the pictures reveal that a human should be in the driver’s seat. Maybe the organizers were worried that Tesla owners were jealous.
From the racing track to the streets
(Image Credit: Maserati)
Far from just being an impressive autonomous speed record (although not an officially sanctioned Guinness World Record), Kennedy Space Center performance helps push AI-Driver software and robotics hardware to the borders themselves.
Paul Mitchell, CEO of Indy Autonomous Challenge and Aidoptation BV claims that by switching to a street car rather than a custom -built racing machine with previous record attempts, it helps “the transition to the experience of autonomous racing to enable safe, safe, sustainable, high -speed autonomous mobility on motorways”.
At speeds of almost 200 km / h, software -reaction times should be razor -sharp and perhaps more important, super reliable.
The team claims that if it can create a system that surely navigates this kind of very illegal speeds, it can translate some of the results to help improve the low -speed mobility.
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