[ExI] [Bulk] Robot car racing!

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:16 AM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> And what's to keep some yahoo from turning this into demolition derby?
>
> bill w
>
> ### Hey, there is nothing wrong with a demolition derby, people pay to
watch it!

A robo-demolition derby could be done e.g. with a standard car in the
physical sense, like a standardized NASCAR car, to remove the incentive to
win stupidly by armoring your rig. Instead different teams would use
software to both improve basic driving skills *and* to be more wily and
cunning about destroying the competition. There would be perhaps
opportunistic cooperation in the beginning when trying to push competitors
onto roadside obstacle (e.g. spiked blocks of concrete lining some
stretches) which would then turn into oil-thirsty all-against-all rage
among the last robots running.

Rafał
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