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It's rather difficult to do that and keep some semblance of safety.

Huh? But that's partly the point, what do you need safety for when there's no drivers?

Build a strong cage around the track so the spectators don't get hurt when a car lifts off at 400mph. And set hefty fines for when a robocar damages another robocar, so the participants are incentivized to win by racing rather than by elimination (which might actually be an interesting sub-genre of its own, though).

And then let's just see how far the engineers can bend physics when they don't have to throttle everything down to accommodate for human safety and reflexes...




Oh, thought you were talking about driver-d cars.

With driverless cars, I agree.




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