The Self-Driving Race Car 

Just to be clear: this isn't sponsored, and Roborace had no control over the video. I'd declare it clearly if anything like that ever happened!

"Accurate up to 2 cm" *Monaco has joined the chat*

Tom: *starts driving* Narrator: _"we had a few crashes this year..."_

Finally a sport in real life where you can literally reduce the difficulty on the AI.

This is just a Tool-Assisted-Speedrun irl.

I'm kinda disappointed that Tom doesn't have a red race suit

Oh it's devbot, I heard deathbot and got a bit worried.

I feel like Robot Wars is an indication that shifting attention off the actual risk can work, although that show still features plenty of destruction. Maybe that's what this needs, is being willing to let programmers push the driving to the point where the cars can potentially crash.

Car: *misses apex by 10 meters* Tom: "Oh that's a perfect racing line"

“Happy is a relative term” - Terrified Wet Meat, 2k19

Tom : "I've never been on a track before ... I'm a worse driver than the computer" Also Tom : " oh ! That is a perfect racing line "

“I can’t wait to see Tom go 200 miles per hour!” - me “We are not going over 60 miles per hour.” - Tom “Damn it.” - me

*Vehicle is limited to 62* "DevBot, it's James"

"Terrified wet meat" I've never heard someone describe themselves like that

I would've loved to have seen the thing really let loose, without the terrified wet meat inside.

This is kinda weird to see. I’ve watched countless formula 1, gt3, and many other series race around this track and, obviously, this looks painfully slow, but Tim’s reaction tell such a different story. It really is a testament to the skill, speed, and physical prowess of race drivers. The sheer acceleration and g forces experienced in Motorsport is just mind boggling.

me: *reads title* so it's an auto automobile?

*It has the Tiktok logo on the side I wouldn’t trust such a thing with my life*

*I paid for the whole speedometer, I'm gonna use the whole speedometer*

Tom: "we can't go faster then 100 kmph" Germans: "You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers"

"We use militairy-grade GPS." reminds me of "oh no, I'm a missile" Anyway, it must be awesome to be Tom getting e-mails "do you want to try this cool thing?"

"Ready is a relative term" - Michael Reeves "Happy is a relative term" - Tom Scott

Found your channel because RU-vid keeps recommending a video you made 10 years ago about fingerprints and a pineapple... eventually got curious and looked at your channel and now I’m just binge watching everything 😂

I've made it 0:04 into the video, and already I feel the urge to comment. Tom, you look absolutely _incredible_ in that racing suit.

3:50 crew: "if you're happy we'll get ready for launch" tom: "HAPPY IS A RELATIVE TERM BUT YES I'M READY TO GO!" crew: sigh "copy that" hahahahha

This is why we need The Park Bench. I need to know the story behind "Sure, I want to ride around Silverstone in a fully atonomus race vehicle."

"which then, meant, the car hit the wall." "Okay, so I'm going to take my hands off the wheel"

0:16 That is an unfortunate last name

“... designed to take a human passenger.” *Tom gestures at himself* How are we supposed to believe you are a human? Didn’t quite see you tick an “I’m not a robot” box there!

Tom Scott is a self driving human being

Honestly, in the Tom Scott extended universe, this is probably my favorite intro to a video

“I felt a bit underwhelmed because there was no risk”

"Returning to base" - /Floors it and lets out maniac laughter/

100kph looks so slow on such a circuit, especially compared to what you see in F1. Not saying it is or feels slow when you're there, I'm sure it was terrifying xD

The car knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't.

"Happy is a relative term" is a very familiar quote that i heard before from Michael Reeves in the video where they test motion sickness with a screen that simulates lag in a car.

I've never seen someone so scared to go the pit lane speed limit on a track.

Thank you for the unit conversions!

You know you've made it when random companies are contacting you to try out their futuristic race car. Absolutely amazing, I can't say it enough that you're living out dreams Tom, you're truly living life to it's fullest.

Plot Twist: Tom Scott is the Stig's RU-vidr Cousin.

"70 kilos of terrified, wet meat" is probably going to be my new Twitter bio.

When they eventually add weapons to the cars, robo-racing will outperform any other motorsport in viewership instantly.

I really, really love the 4k 50fps I don't know if it was a headache to implement but it is appreciated.

I'm watching this feeling a bit underwhelmed as my tesla drove me to flagstaff and back going like 85mph.

The car knows exactly where it is by knowing exactly where it is not.

Person A: "Are you x?" Person B, in a technologically enhanced car: "X IS A RELATIVE TERM" This is kind of a recurring theme in your videos, isn't it?

It's kind of funny seeing Tom in the driver's seat of what looks like an LMP1 car taking a racing line around Silverstone.

It’s sad that Roborace got discontinued. It was such a unique idea.

*"OH THAT IS A PERFECT RACING LINE!"* Tom: Also, that thing sounds like a fookin SPACE SHIP, MATE! XD

Racing code.exe

I'd love to watch it! I'd be so interested in how the various teams implement their systems, and talk about the algorithms they've used for their car!

3:08 "We had a hardware fai-" * video loads * you dont say

1:30 The car knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the car from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the car is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the car must also know where it was. The car guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

wait till fans start anthropomorphising the robocars. YOU KNOW THEY WILL

As a long time fan of Jelle's Marble Runs and the Marble League I can safely say, yes, sports work without the human component.

happy is a relative term! I love that it's basically the same thing michael said to tom in a previous video about tom and friends getting sick in a car

"Jesus, take the wheel!"

Tom's rocking that look in the suit

I do racing in my spare time and I struggle to see how this could be turned into a successful spectator sport. There's nothing interesting about watching a field of cars all designed to race perfectly with no humans involved. It's no different to lining up a group of computers and seeing which one can compute something the fastest, interesting yes, a spectator sport? No.

Battlebots is fairly successful. Allow the cars to hit each other and it would get interesting very quickly.

So it’s basically a tas for speed running race tracks

"And that meant ... the car hit the wall" Oooookay.

One of these for an offroad or rally race would be incredible

I think you summed up the analysis really well... The "sport" aspect of it is a means to an end with the end being better software and systems for commercial autonomous vehicles and possibly as a side benefit, improving AI competitors or predictive models designed to overcome netcode issues in Racing Games. Outside of that, I don't see it being anymore than a niche sport with extremely narrow reach.

The tech is truly unbelieveable, and the progress this team has made since the strat of this journey is insane. But as Tom said, motorsports are all about the drivers and the humans inside pushing the limit, fighting for every single position and racing each other as hard as possible. That´s what makes us love this wonderful sport. Roborace as a testing ground will be great. As a sport I really doubt it´ll succeed

Tom has THE MOST RANDOM videos out of nowhere and I love it :>

I've Seen this at Goodwood. Wonderful!

I totally agree with tom at the end. There is no joy, passion or risk in a robot setting perfect times with perfect racing lines. The reason that the racing champions become champions is because they are the best and have worked hard, and a few uni students shouldn't take all that hard work away with a few algorithms and logics in an automated vehicle

Person: automated car, cool! Eyes align to see TikTok on car Person: ಠ_ʖಠ

1:29 The car knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn’t from where it is, it obtains a difference or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the car from a position where it is to a position where it isn't and arriving at a position that it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation. The variation being the difference between where the car is and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the car must also know where it was. The car guidance computer scenario works as follows: Because a variation has modified some of the information that the car has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa. And by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

Tom you have the perfect job, people invite you to get driven around a race track like nobody's business

Came for the excellent video; stayed for the F1 memes in the comments. Seriously though Tom, I'm glad that you brought up the lack of human factor and whether such would provide the same level of entertainment for this to be classed as viable. It was ringing through my head for the duration of the video up to that point.

I am following RoboRace for some time now and I am really happy that they now get a broader coverage. Makes me happy for everyone involved at the teams

I quite like this "I got an email/invitation" series. I love how Tom gets to have tons of fun with it.

Slightly disappointed there wasn't a lap shown of the robo car doing its thing, but still, good video as ever :)

How to make the sport entertaining: create lore around the AIs and give them personality, that's why marble racing is fun

"Ive never been on a Racetrack before" "THAT WAS A PERFECT RAICING LINE"

Tom's tone in the intro is just like: You know what, I'm just beyond being surprised by stuff now 😂

the steering algorythim needs some pid tuning it's oscillating around the optimum

"Happy is a relative term!" Ah, classic Tom :D

The fact that the car is sponsored by TikTok makes me question whether the car is safe

Oh Alan. Poor, poor Alan.

this is what i love the intellectually superior taking over something and making it so much cooler

That long Red and Grey building is my secondary school, they specialise in High Performance Engineering

Who is this Tom Scott look a like? Is this a parody? Is this one of those AI face swaps? I know it ain't the real Tom because there was no red shirt!

You know, I don’t know if anyone ever says it, but thanks for showing the imperial conversions on the screen. I love your show and appreciate the thoughtfulness :)

That racing suit is totally badass!

Since it's robots, they could make it a lot more interesting by introducing situations that'd be unacceptably dangerous for humans, but much more interesting to watch. Think irl mario cart

“70 kilograms of wet meat” is the best description of a human I have heard so far, Tom.

The moment they started talking about making it interesting even though there aren't people in the cars, I started thinking about the logistics of safely putting weapons on the cars.

Bless!...easily scared but i guess as a newcomer to tracks and fast cars, i bet it was scary!

Ah yes, autonomous racing, a sport for the people who think golfing is "just too thrilling"

"Oh and Vettel spins! Good job it's just an office chair in front of some computers."

I'm honestly so jealous of Tom's Email

I think as the Esports Market takes on Steam in the decades to come, the media can create engaging storylines around this kind of racing, emotionally investing ourselves in the teams that develop these cars - similar to the popularity around robot fights.

This is amazing

Just got out of school and this is how I am spend my time I am happy thanks tom

"Happy is a relative term" I see you've picked some things up from Michael Reeves, eh?

"happy is a relative term" I'm having some Michael Reeves flashbacks here xD

When I remember car concepts like the SRT Tomahawk and the RedBull x2010 from Gran Turismo, this is how I'd imagine them in real life