Indy Autonomous Challenge Racecar Sets Autonomous Hill Climb Record

Over the weekend, the new self-driving AV-24 racecar from the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) university student competition set the record for the fastest autonomous hill climb time at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed. The car was piloted by an AI (artificial intelligence) driver developed by one of the IAC teams, PoliMOVE-MSU, a joint effort from Politecnico di Milano, Michigan State University, and the University of Alabama.

In a series of three runs, the record was broken during the third and final run up the Goodwood Hill where the racecar reached a top speed of 111.2 mph (179 km/h) and finished in 66.37 s. The previous record had been held by Roborace since 2019 when its DevBot 2.0 autonomous car clocked a 66.96 s time at a top speed of 101.16 mph (162.8 km/h).

Source: Futurride