A few days ago, Roborace – the first ever self-driving race car concept – made headlines with its notion of what a driverless racing series might be like.

Needless to say, the outcome is still unknown, although Nvidia will be the first to implement an A.I. in vehicles.

The technology company announced its interest in the project and that they’re putting their world’s first in-car artificial intelligence supercomputer, the DRIVE PX2, into the cars that will compete in the Roborace Championship. The series will be part of the Formula E ePrix electric racing events and will combine robot competition with earth-friendly alternative energy.

According to Nvidia, every Roborace will pit 10 teams, each with two driverless cars equipped with the aforementioned supercomputer, against each other in one-hour races. The races are described as a “contest to build the most advanced artificial mind”, as the teams will have identical cars, with the (presumably) customizable software representing the sole advantage of each team.

Moreover, the DRIVE PX2 supercomputer provides a processing power of 150 MacBook Pros – enough to incorporate input from a vast variety of sensors – from radars to cameras, GPS inputs with high-definition mappings and everything in between.

It seems that the amount of information that needs to go in each vehicle is very demanding, that’s why Kinetik, the company behind the Roborace idea, approached Nvidia in the first place.

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