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Originally Posted by Deschodt
There in lies the irony! Red Bull is a soda maker helping Aston make a hyper car so that their star engineer can pull a Gordon Murray for his legacy. Aston is the car maker here and they get their expertise from the energy drink people ! Aston don’t really make F1 engines (hell they buy them from Mercedes for their super cars). Red Bull has Honda as a manufacturer. What does Aston do for red bulls? tea? Chassis engineers? Doubt it :-)
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Redbull is a weird company. Although an overwhelming majority of their revenue comes from energy drinks, there is much more to the organization than that. Saying Aston gets their "expertise from the energy drink people" is naiive. The chemist mixing the different flavors of Redbull in their experimental lab isn't moonlighting at Aston Martin. Through some arrangement (most likely Aston paying Redbull), they are getting technical expertise from the Redbull Racing F1 team based in Milton Keynes, UK. They also get some real estate on the F1 car and the associated brand tie-in. This isn't much different than Williams Advanced Engineering doing the Jaguar CX-75 or Singer DLS.
Aston Martin doesn't have the capital to do a ground-up globally homologated large displacement engine on their own so they buy from AMG. It's just smart business and works well for the needs of their core buyer.
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Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr
ZAMIRZ, not sure if you've read about Roborace a fledgling AI race car series, very cool sci-fi looking cars not sure why anyone would watch this without the variable element of a human driver
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Yes, I'm aware of roborace. No, not interested in watching it (yet), but give it some time and I think it has some potential.
The AI will aid in the setup, but not in the actual driving. I know this is going to turn into a gray area, but the rules governing it right now are pretty good in my opinion and the evolution should follow some sort of human decision making where acceleration, braking and steering input are off limits to technology intervention with concessions for driver safety.