THIS is the incredible moment an AI-driven Maserati nearly hits 200mph, setting a new world record during a stunning speed test.
The new autonomous speed record, set by a robot-controlled car in Florida, U.S, reached a whopping 197.7mph on the Kennedy Space Centre runway.
The world’s fastest AI robot car nearly reached 200mph[/caption]
Inside the driverless MC20 Cielo which has no human sitting in it[/caption]
The car could be seen darting at 197.7mph at Kennedy Space Centre Runway[/caption]
Footage shows the point of view perspective inside the car, which starts cruising at around 20mph before a rapid acceleration.
The streetcar can be seen racing up the runway – as if it’s about to take off – before it starts to gradually get to 197.7mph.
The rocket-like vehicle, painted in a gorgeous green and blue fade with an INDY Autonomous Challenge logo, hit the spectacular achievement without a human in the driver’s seat.
The speedy project, which saw an MC20 Cielo reach the record, was undertaken by experts from Maserati, the Indy Autonomous Challenge, the 1000 Miglia Experience Florida and Politecnico di Milano University.
The experts at Maserati have also attempted this daredevil endeavour before – previously reaching 192.8mph in a driverless IAC AV21 in 2022.
Scientific Director of the project Professor Sergio Matteo Savaresi said the incredible feat “demonstrates the robustness and reliability of the algorithms developed for autonomous driving.”
The convertible MC20 Cielo was specially fitted with Lidar camera and sensor technology.
The same model of this car also managed to complete the famously difficult 1000 Miglia road race in Italy without a driver in 2023.
Paul Mitchell, CEO of Indy Autonomous Challenge and Aidoptation BV said that by using a streetcar rather than a racing vehicle, like in previous record attempts, it helped “transition the learnings of autonomous racing to enable safe, secure, sustainable, high-speed autonomous mobility on highways”.
The software was developed by the PoliMOVE-MSU team, at Milan polytechnic University, but the modifications made to make the car work have not yet been disclosed.
Reaching lightning speeds of almost 200mph, software reaction times have to be razor sharp and incredibly reliable.
The team also explained that if it can create a system that safely navigates highly illegal speeds, it can translate some of the findings to help improve low-speed urban mobility.
The speedy vehicle drove with an AI software developed by PoliMOVE-MSU experts[/caption]
The record will help to improve low-speed urban mobility, according to the team[/caption]
