CES 2024: Autonomous Racing Vehicles are Set to Redefine and Improve Transportation

Hi. I'm Paul Mitchell. I'm president of Indy Autonomous Challenge, and we are here at CES 2024. Behind me, you can see one of the world's fastest autonomous vehicles. This is the ICAB24. It's an autonomous race car drives itself. We have to have ten of these cars, and they're programmed by university teams throughout the world. We have nine teams representing eighteen universities who develop AI drivers that operate these race cars speeds as high as a hundred and eighty miles per hour in head to head racing scenarios. You might ask yourself, why are we doing this? Is it to try to replace human race car drivers? Absolutely not. This is an applied research platform for validating that the hardware and the software that's going into commercial, it's on vehicles can actually handle speeds above a hundred, a hundred and fifty miles an hour so that someday we can save lives on the highway and speed up, trans portation for for everybody. What's new this year, at at CES is we're rolling out our next gen, race car platform. So the the chassis is the same. The engine is the same, but is filled with a completely updated robot. It was a really exciting engineering project that we worked on with a number of commercial partners companies like Lumenar, Continental, D space, Marelli, NI, Vector NAV, and others. You can check these cars out in person if you're here at CS by coming to the autonomous challenge at CES, which is gonna be held at Las Vegas Motor Speedway from three thirty to six PM on January eleventh. See you there.