[ExI] robot races

[spike at rainier66.com]

  Germans came in second as well.  The Constructor University team finished and gets a share in the prize loot.  Cool!

spike

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University of Munich wins Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League!

Congratulations krauts!  Well done indeed.

Have we any Germans on ExI these days?  I will see if I can find Eugen Leitl.

spike

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OK, they stopped that heat, brought the cars into the pits.  The yank team changed some code and they are restarting the engines.  Sounds like they are trying to compensate for the cooler track temperature by easing up a bit coming into the curvies with less aggressive braking into the chicane.  Owwww damn, they yank car wasn't sent back out.  It is being rolled away.  It's out.  Now it is two krauts and a wop left.  I pick wops to cheer on next I guess.  We have some ExI guys from Italy.

Oh the lead car pulled to a stop!  The other two cars went around it!  Now we have one wop and one kraut!

Cool!

spike

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Damn.  The yank car locked up, spun out and stopped, facing the wrong direction.  It somehow figured out it needed to turn around, but it turned 90 degrees, faced the infield wall.  These cars have no reverse gear, but a human driver knows to turn the wheel and spin out to bring the back end around.  The yank car doesn't know how to do that.  It was partly on the track, so the yellow flag came out, which caused the kraut car to slow down and stop.  Then the wop car slowed and stopped, unwilling to pass because it was under the yellow flag, but they can pass a stopped car.  It didn't know.  Then the other kraut car came up and dutifully stopped behind the others.  So now nobody (nobot?) finishes that heat.

OK then.

spike



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Oooooh the yank car just locked the tires and spun out!  Now it is facing the wrong direction!  They don't know if it can figure out what to do.

spike

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Judging from quals, we have the yank and wop teams within a fraction of a second of each other up front, with two kraut teams, from the Technology University of Munich and one from Constructor University from Vegesack, Bremen with the third and fourth best qual times.

Everybody pick a team and cheer em on!  BillW is from Mississippi, which is next to Alabama, so I will cheer on that team.  Go yanks!

Cool!

spike

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Oh and the krauts!  They are only a coupla seconds behind!

Looks like the 4th place team is 22 seconds down in the quals.

Eeeeexcellent racing.

spike

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Subject: RE: robot races

Wooohooo!

The Yank team PoliMOVE got the fastest qual time.  This rookie team is from University of ALABAMA, yall!

The wops are just very slightly behind the yanks.  Go bots!  Judging from the qual times, this race is all about yanks vs wops, cool!

spike