However,
things didn't quite go to plan for its first scheduled street track
outing at the inaugural Formula E Hong Kong ePrix earlier this month.
There
were no high-speed figures of eight, only seven engineers struggling to
push the 1.1-ton car through a three-point turn outside its temporary
home in Hong Kong -- problems recharging the battery the reason given
for the no show.
A range of technology demonstrations, promotions and computer games in the eVillage served as a prelude to Sunday's 45-lap race around a 1.8-kilometer track in the city's Central Harborfront area which was won by reigning world champion Sebastien Buemi.
A range of technology demonstrations, promotions and computer games in the eVillage served as a prelude to Sunday's 45-lap race around a 1.8-kilometer track in the city's Central Harborfront area which was won by reigning world champion Sebastien Buemi.
"Of course, we can get a lot of information from data but there's
nothing like having a human in there to ask them how it actually feels,
but the final cars won't have space for a driver at all," Tomlinson
says.
The Roborace team will try again at next month's Marrakech ePrix on
November 12, with Tomlinson hopeful they will be running races before
the third season of Formula E ends next July.
"It's more of an entertainment series to
display the capabilities of driverless," Tomlinson says. "So we'd like
almost to play chicken with them -- two cars coming towards each other
and stopping on a certain point (before they hit each other), having
them crisscross, doing figures of eight."
However,
things didn't quite go to plan for its first scheduled street track
outing at the inaugural Formula E Hong Kong ePrix earlier this month.
There
were no high-speed figures of eight, only seven engineers struggling to
push the 1.1-ton car through a three-point turn outside its temporary
home in Hong Kong -- problems recharging the battery the reason given
for the no show.
A range of technology demonstrations, promotions and computer games in the eVillage served as a prelude to Sunday's 45-lap race around a 1.8-kilometer track in the city's Central Harborfront area which was won by reigning world champion Sebastien Buemi.
A range of technology demonstrations, promotions and computer games in the eVillage served as a prelude to Sunday's 45-lap race around a 1.8-kilometer track in the city's Central Harborfront area which was won by reigning world champion Sebastien Buemi.
"Of course, we can get a lot of information from data but there's
nothing like having a human in there to ask them how it actually feels,
but the final cars won't have space for a driver at all," Tomlinson
says.
The Roborace team will try again at next month's Marrakech ePrix on
November 12, with Tomlinson hopeful they will be running races before
the third season of Formula E ends next July.
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