This Week's Sign of the Apocalypse?
11-30-2018, 07:23 PM
#1
Three Wheelin'
Thread Starter
This Week's Sign of the Apocalypse?
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon...red-race-cars/
Have a local racer connection (NASA in a Radical, E-Powered Radical, Lemons cars, creator of EA Sports Madden game) that works for Amazon. I wonder if he is involved. The world is changing very fast.
Have a local racer connection (NASA in a Radical, E-Powered Radical, Lemons cars, creator of EA Sports Madden game) that works for Amazon. I wonder if he is involved. The world is changing very fast.
11-30-2018, 08:56 PM
#2
WRONGLY ACCUSED!
Rennlist Member
Rennlist Member
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Connecticut Valley Region
Posts: 14,847
Received 4,106 Likes
on
1,840 Posts
It's been done in full scale as well:
11-30-2018, 11:45 PM
#4
Three Wheelin'
Thread Starter
My "headline" was somewhat tongue in cheek.
I am not fully briefed on the Roborace program, but I have a good friend that is very informed, having met/engaged in person with various stakeholders.
My friend is a car guy and gifted entrepreneur. I just helped him buy is second 911-- first air-cooled.
When you start to do more reading about these things, it becomes more clear that they are perhaps more about tech development and demonstration than trying to create "racing as entertainment" for the future.
For example, the Yamaha/SRI Motobot program that hit is zenith recently (and run by some of my contacts) was not funded by Yamaha to develop a robotic motorcycle... it was about other things.
And quite a bit of self-driving tech development, and related "envisioning" is probably less focused on what individual consumers may buy in the near future, than it is on what we will ride in, and other areas of transportation.
Take Otto and what Uber has done with them, for example.
I met the first employee of Otto earlier this year. He just bought his first air-cooled.
Methinks this AWS program is about things that are different from what we may think at a glance, and I know my contact with Amazon Gaming will have interesting things to say about it when I next see him, hopefully this Winter over a coffee or a beer.
Machine learning... even in F1 and America's Cup racing. I met a young Porschephile with all of these interests, as well as academic and professional accomplishments earlier this year. A glimpse into the future. And he is a Rennlister from time to time I think.
Old world bridging into new...
I am not fully briefed on the Roborace program, but I have a good friend that is very informed, having met/engaged in person with various stakeholders.
My friend is a car guy and gifted entrepreneur. I just helped him buy is second 911-- first air-cooled.
When you start to do more reading about these things, it becomes more clear that they are perhaps more about tech development and demonstration than trying to create "racing as entertainment" for the future.
For example, the Yamaha/SRI Motobot program that hit is zenith recently (and run by some of my contacts) was not funded by Yamaha to develop a robotic motorcycle... it was about other things.
And quite a bit of self-driving tech development, and related "envisioning" is probably less focused on what individual consumers may buy in the near future, than it is on what we will ride in, and other areas of transportation.
Take Otto and what Uber has done with them, for example.
I met the first employee of Otto earlier this year. He just bought his first air-cooled.
Methinks this AWS program is about things that are different from what we may think at a glance, and I know my contact with Amazon Gaming will have interesting things to say about it when I next see him, hopefully this Winter over a coffee or a beer.
Machine learning... even in F1 and America's Cup racing. I met a young Porschephile with all of these interests, as well as academic and professional accomplishments earlier this year. A glimpse into the future. And he is a Rennlister from time to time I think.
Old world bridging into new...
11-30-2018, 11:59 PM
#5
Three Wheelin'
Thread Starter
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/self-dr...cars/partners/
One of my neighbors works on Nvidia's tech in this area.
AI, Machine Learning, Robotics...
I am eager (I guess) to watch the documentary now showing on HBO:
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/th...ocnyc-premiere
I hope it does not give me nightmares about the technology singularity... I have had some in the past when hanging out at Singularity University.
Things are developing quickly. Exponentially?
One of my neighbors works on Nvidia's tech in this area.
AI, Machine Learning, Robotics...
I am eager (I guess) to watch the documentary now showing on HBO:
https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/th...ocnyc-premiere
I hope it does not give me nightmares about the technology singularity... I have had some in the past when hanging out at Singularity University.
Things are developing quickly. Exponentially?
12-01-2018, 09:03 AM
#6
Rennlist Member
I was at a formula e race where they demo’d a full sized formula-e self driving car. (It periodically slowed down and thought).
I knew at that moment that motorsports is dead.
I knew at that moment that motorsports is dead.