This is a NEW Formula series… with NO driver 

Better driver than Stroll.

Tommy being Savage with poor Matt...'and then doesn't win' 😂😂

Will be allowed on the F1 grid before Andretti...

"You could have a Max Verstappen-esque Driver, something Tommy would love" "And you could have a Charles LeClerk type of driver, who is a bit more aggressive in qualifying" ""And then doesn't win"" "Shut up" I love the banter between these two ;)

Williams: Driver but no car A2RL: Car but no driver

I didn't know these guys really did have lower torsos and legs this whole time

"plan F" lmao

Therapist: AI Max Verstappen isn’t real. He can’t hurt you AI Max Verstappen:

"Box Box" "plan F" 😂

We got self driving Formula One cars before GTA 6

Imagine at the end of the race: Car bot: “You came in like a Trojan!” Kvyat: "That it was just Human hard racing."

So this is where Newey is going. No pesky humans to limit his cars abilities ....

Lawrence could save a lot of money and get similar results by hiring one of these machine learning algorithms in place of Lance.

let's call it Formula NOne 🏁

Now that we don't have a human driver, i wish we see faster cars (more than 300 kph) and different track configuration that can check the limits of the aerodynamics and engineering of the cars. Thats promising!

Woah a halo-less super formula looks incredibly cool

So just a super fast advertising machine...every ceo dream

Suprised this is a thing before RC formula racing. I can see Max driving a Red Bull from home.

As a coder and F1 fan, I watched the 'race' and can only say it was embarrassingly bad. Most of the race ended up being at 50mph or under (rather a lot at 0mph when cars refused to overtake stuck cars under yellow). There was an overtake after the restart when the 2nd of the remaining 2 cars dived down the inside of the leader, but that was mostly because the leading car appeared to see the overtaking car as an obstacle and just slammed on the brakes and obstinately refused to move after that. With the probability that the new leader would stop behind it and refused to lap it again, they appeared to just end the race a lap early. Shambletastic :) It is very cool tech and hopefully one day might develop into something. But they need a lot more closed testing and development before it gets shown to the public again.

With out the limits of a human body imagine how fast one of these can be.

The return of No-Name!

This is actually so cool. As someone who loves to nerd out on the technology aspect of F1, this is epic

Can remember the firsts attempts to do this. It was rather funny! Seeing those cars made 90 degrees turns..... Straight into the side barriers..

Just subscribed to the A2RL RU-vid page, and you guys are doing this. Brilliant. I'm so happy for you both and the job you both do is wonderful ❤😊

Hey Guys, have you heard of the 'Miniatur Wunderland' in Hamburg, Germany? Yesterday, Albert II of Monaco opened the new section 'Monaco' in a miniature railway in the scale of 1:87. The new highlight is the Formula 1 track with small race cars. And the best: Every race is different! Thanks to a self-programmed software.

Tried to watch it today... Super cool the VR video here on RU-vid and what you have showed too! 😮 Shame that ot looked only like they were in practice 😅 these things are still super slow 🥺 7:50 oh well I didn't know! Well then I'm happy for him 😄 P.S. oh and as an Italian I'm super happy to see the Politechnico of Milan having an autonomous car in this series 🤯

Gran Turismo B-Spec mode coming to life

Aston should hired this as Fernando alonso's teammate

Did anyone watch the race yesterday? It was so shit. Good idea but more testing needed before being broadcast again.

Saudi Arabia would rather have a no driver series than a female driver series 💀

Honestly I was very skeptical of this, but seeing it as Robot Wars or Bamzooki but with racing seems really fun.

I watched the 'race' on Saturday evening. Only 4 cars spent 2 laps under a virtual safety car 'warming' the tyres at 50 mph then spent another 2 laps under virtual safety car at 60 mph then one of the cars fell way behind with an A I glitch so they continued at 60 despite the race already being green flagged. Eventually they gave the ok and off they went, lumbering around at different speeds to each other until about halfway around the first lap, the leading car locked up under braking and stalled. The following car somehow managed to go past but then slowed to a crawl as the yellow flags were shown. The remaining cars came across the first car and simply stopped not going past the stalled car despite the techs in the pits managing to get it to the side of the track but pointing nose first into the barrier. The race was red flagged and the cars were recovered to the pits were they were rebooted. I had got fed up by then so took the dog for a walk. Upon returning, the 'race' was just finishing with the car that qualified 3rd winning after the 2 Italian developed cars did an impression of Matt's beloved 'Dancing Donkeys' and failed to finish! I've had more fun playing Scalextric on my own!

Can I just ask am I missing a place where these guys do more content? I want to see their reactions to f1 news mainly about Adrian Newey but they’ve not posted anything?

What’s cool about this is that we have spec series to see who has the most driver skill, but with AI we can finally have equal drivers to see who has the best engineers

logan checking over his shoulder sweatin

the fun thing is, you can get rid of all safety features and just make it as fast as possible

Love that you guys are stepping it up with the production. Nice!

The intro with two motorsport nerds smiling ear-to-ear is pure gold. Dont worry, If I were there, it would be a trio of nerdi.

ngl i kinda saw this twist on the racing formula (pun unintended) comming from a mile away, and while i am a bit apprehensive about how good it will actually turn out, im still intregued to see how this develops

Okay I love racing so much and I want to be a opened minded as possible. Can someone explain why this exists

Live VR from the cockpit during a race would be incredible

Bet you the robocar wouldn't have yeeted DannyRic two feet in the air by smacking him up the arse! #EnoughIsEnoughLance By the way, you lads are racking up the Avios nicely, it seems... 😉

This video has the best banter between ya'll that I've seen yet. Thanks for the chuckles! Tommy is so charming for a wonk. Also learned today that he has a Mech E degree. Not at all surprised.

Stroll will still manage to crash it

We got real life NPC driver before GTA6💀

That was pretty cool! More traveling/on location shoots, please! (The videos where you got to drive a Formula E car, and the karting competition w/Damon Hill were particularly kick-ass, and I'd love to see more of that from you guys.)

I watch F1 and technology developing since late 90s. I dreamed about seeing F1 cars in the future capable of driving themselves but actually living theese days and seeing those slow first laps and that 'race' was like seeing my baby making the first steps. It was like starting a computer in 1990s to play Mario and dreaming of Virtual Reality gaming that we have nowadays. It`s simply breathtaking. I will start taking care more of my body just to be alive long enough to see the 10th, 20th iteration of technology. Amazing

That's actually so cool. I had no idea this was a thing. Thanks guys! Nice production video as well.

I'm doing my BSc Computer science, where I have worked on Formula Student and now a project with another autonomous driving car. I discussed this idea literally last Friday about a formula style competition with autonomous cars. Very exciting!

If they learn from accidents they became fing geniuses with this race!

Really enjoyed this video, would love to see more!

When I started to drive in VR 6 years ago I thought about using VR to drive Drone around the tracks. Imagine the G loads a vehicle could achieve without a human onboard. E-sports drivers could race the drone vehicles.

I’ve never seen anyone better encapsulate 😎 than Tommy This was super interesting! Thanks both!!

You should check out the Indy Autonomous Challenge. They have been doing autonomous racing for probably 5 years now, which is where a handful of these teams (the good ones lmao like Polimove, TUM, and Unimore) came from.

I wrote a paper on this for my freshman writing class in college :) good to finally see it

The VR and mobile aspects are something F1 absolutely need to do.

I want to watch this series now, it’s kinda like robot wars

The quality of this video is phenomenal. Congratulations, Matt & Tommy. The quality shows.

No info on the format of the race weekend? 😕

Matt has a little Murray Walker to his commentary

Now this is something in my wheelhouse! Thanks for showing us this!

This an opportunity to introduce vertically looped tracks etc.

This is so cool, think about how much the car could change without needed to leave room for a driver

I finally got to the end of your excellent video, keep up your great work. 💯😎🇯🇲

This series should just encapsulate all the engineering innovations aspect from F1 so that the money spenders can go nuts with their toys. Then make F1 with cars having equal engines and have the drivers duke it out properly.

"be sure to lock your laptops before leaving it, because that's where the real danger is" lmao every HR department

I watched the live "race" between the 4 cars. While an interesting exercise.... it's not exciting at all. A couple of them didn't work at all and the others just went around at 10mph with brief moments of higher speed. It's obviously early days and might get interesting eventually, but it's a long way off.

2:43 how many Tommy's are there 😮

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN!!! so freaking cool

So how do they look when they race? Would’ve liked to see some racing footage

If there are not going to be drivers and driver safety is not an issue let's just make speed racer like races happen ..... Like cars being able to jump, have weapons , have ramps , etc,etc

Watched it live yesterday , it was so boring & cars were confused all the time 😂😂

The pitstops should be done by those robots that fall over when they try to turn a spigot or open a door. "Fail-robots". They still might be faster than Sauber

Matt, Tommy, you can tell this is going to be a great video by hearing your intro which is banging 💥 No driver, then you dropped the baseline, you should put it on a track, I would buy it in a heartbeat.💥🔥🇯🇲

Off-topic: It would be nice to have minor F1 championship but with Reserve drivers and rookie drivers. It has its own points independent of the main F1. This minor league will slot in between weeks long off-time of main F1. Or even keeping main F1 to only 22 races. The minor championship will fill-in. Maybe use the previous year car.

My immediate reaction is can this make the ultimate Esports competition?

i bet they pre coded before car was built . You enter program last in ecm pcm and ai when its on the car

You’ve basically made, life size scalxtric.

A Gamer's paradise sport

I guess if you can get a group of f2/sf cars to race wheel to wheel without crashing, you can almost guarantee that an autonomous taxi taking old Doris to the shops wont.

this against kvyat will be a massive fireball 😂😂

2:49 Ahhh that one already got the Kwjat torpedo update !

Crazy that they’re using GPS. They should be using a ground based location system. There’s a company in Australia that can track a fighter jet from 100km away and give x,y,z coordinates down to 13cm (on an object travelling 100’s of km/hr).

ML AI driving the car? Sounds like my game :)

AI can't hurt us. AI moments later.. WINNING THE 8TH TITLE

When is the Hulkenberg video coming out?

still has better spatial awareness than a certain billionaire's son

This is actually so insane! Wow!

This is going to advance automotive industry more than a decade of F1. I am looking forward to the technology upgrades.

Fascinating!

I'd love to see an autonumous Formula in which engineers could go all out. Super light weight cars, grounbeffect with fans, active aero, engines that are nuts, you name it.. let them all go out on it with minimal regulations and create cars that have insane acceleration, straightline- and corneringspeeds with g-forcces a human coudn't handle. A pure engineeringcompetition. Dang i would watch that!!

As much as I like this new tech, I will always want to see Tsunoda and Stroll yelling at their cockpits after rear ending the car in front.

Once the brains are good enough, A formula series that does the opposite would be cool where the teams can work on the airo and go nuts with it.

2:26 😂😂

As a science demo, this certainly looks very interesting. I am not sure really so much as a sport. I am fascinated by the technology and the fun presentation, but I can't find myself rooting for who programmed their computer better. Still, fun to see, nice vid :)

We need you to talk about the Hulk transfer lately Matt and Tommy!

They taking over this aswell

I find robot racing and the technology behind it fascinating, as well as the option of having insanely fast cars in the future that go way beyond the human limits. With that said I am really not a fan of all these gimmicks around it and especially not the VR stuff. I like VR in general, but you will need an insanely good internet connect for this to work and even in the short clips here it did not look good, and they were on site. Trying to squeeze some half assed VR thing in is just unnecessary and also does not help to get the general audience on board (VR is still very niche).

i really want to see AI competing in WRC! Just imagine the limits AI can push without anyone being in danger, and its a much more interesting and dynamic challenge for the AI!

Tommy looks like hes about to drop some crazy bars on his sound cloud