[ExI] AI-controlled fighter planes & race cars

[BillK]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 15:25, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> Oh this is soooo cool, thx BillK!
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> This to me has so many possibilities for new engineering challenges.  The robot cars can be scaled down in size, enough to make the cars affordable for private racing teams.  Because of motorcycles and boats, we already have super high performance light weight compact low cost factory-produced engines, such as the ones on the Mercury 225 outboard motor and the Hayabusa 1.3 liter bike engine.  We can use those babies to produce racecars with a mass of perhaps 500 kg with the highest point a meter or perhaps even less, off the track.  We are freed from having to build around a human occupant which doesn't scale down.  We can also take bigger risks with the robot cars.  We could even create a factory which produces standard Hayabusa-driven racing frames, perhaps mass produce them for 40k or less.  You add your computer and software, and off to the races.  Ordinary university race teams could enter that, privateers, oh this could be big.
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> spike
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On 27 April, the live streaming is from 16.00(GST) to 23:00 (GST).
That is Gulf Standard Time in Abu Dhabi.

PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) is 11 hours behind Gulf Standard Time.
So I think that means 05.00 to 12.00 for you.

You might be able to find the schedule for the race times, so you can
skip the boring bits!  :)

BillK