s'noJob

So imagine this. You're sitting on the grid waiting to track. You set your on-board computer to instruct your vehicle to drive the circuit using your best prior performance (lap times, turn-ins, early/late apexes, braking, etc.)

Once you're on the track and the pace car leaves in preparation for the green flag, you hit the Super Cruise, and then sit back and watch your racecar fly around at the best performance your car has ever learned.

Oh sure, you may have to nudge the steering wheel for the occasional unusual passing situations or tap the brakes every once in a while when the car in front hits the brakes harder than the cruise can adapt. But for the most part, you're just along for the ride.

In the coming days of modern electronics, is this what the future of roadracing can become?

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1991Z07

Not likely...

Computer aids like this have always been either outright excluded, or written out of the rules shortly after someone used them.

F1 had "traction control" and "launch control" and it was banned.

hklvette

Don't forget active suspension and dampers.

I think what we will see sooner rather than later is the introduction of an automated race series, where the goal is to build the fastest thing on four wheels without a driver on-board.