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Originally Posted by RWebb
xlnt for R&D, esp. at the extreme (letal) limits
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Doubt they need autonomous race cars for that kind of R&D.
For one thing, the street cars aren't designed for those levels of performance that racecars would do at those limits.
If that was the goal, they would have to design a completely different vehicle with much different design specs so the limits actually raise way over what a normal car could ever do.. think somehow manage grip to G levels a human can't pull, acceleration well past 0-100 in half a sec.. Tron bike like cornering.. That technology does't even exist, so well what would they R&D with.. You don't need racing to test technology that doesn't exist, you need more R&D in fields that racing isn't even allowed to look at right now.. because they would be deemed unfair advantage and bad for racing sportsmanship.
And another thing, crash tests are much better since they are much better at producing a controlled test where they can actually capture data from all sides with huge amount of sensors aimed at what they are testing..