- Maserati MC20 is equipped with numerous lidar, cameras and sensors
- The demonstration vehicle reached almost 200 mph at the Kennedy Space Center
- A second autonomous Mc20 sky took to the streets of Florida
Maserati has just established a new autonomous speed record at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, since its magnificent MC20 supercar reached 197.7 MPH without a human behind the steering wheel.
The initiative is an association between the Autonomous Challenge of INDY (IAC) and Politecnico Di Milano, the largest scientific-technological university in Italy, with the couple with the aim of testing the hardware limits, computing power and artificial intelligence where it is related to advanced levels of autonomous driving.
The intelligent crew of the Politecnico Di Milano, which is part of a team that specializes only in the autonomous driving at the university, managed to reach 192.8 MPH in its IAC AV-21 racing car in 2022, but returned to one of the longest tracks in the world with 15,000 feet (2.8 miles) to try to overcome it with the 630hp street car of Maserati.
According to the team, push almost 200 mph to MC20 without a driver behind the steering wheel “demonstrates the robustness and reliability of the algorithms developed for autonomous driving”, scientific director of the project Professor Sergio Matteo Savaresi explained.
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To demonstrate even more to what extent the team has arrived in terms of autonomous driving skills, the team also brought its Maserati MC20 Cielo convertible, which had been specially equipped with Lidar, camera and sensor technology.
This fall model managed to complete around 60 km (about 37 miles) of the famous 1000 My000 Road race in Italy two years ago without a driver.
He went to parade the streets of the US State.
That said, the images reveal that a human had to be in the driver’s seat. Perhaps the organizers were concerned that Tesla’s owners get jealous.
From the racing track to the streets
Far from simply an impressive autonomous speed record (although it is not a worldwide guinness record), the achievement of the Kennedy Space Center helps boost the software and robotic hardware of AI to it.
Paul Mitchell, CEO of Indy Autonomous Challenge and Aidaptation BV states that when making the transition to a tram, instead of a previous record, high -speed, high -speed attempt machine.
At almost 200 mph speeds, software reaction times have to be sharp and, perhaps the most important, super reliable.
The team states that if you can create a system that sails this type of highly illegal speeds safely, you can translate some of the findings to help improve low -speed urban mobility.
