The case for automated systems in racing
Lucas di Grassi is best known for his on-track exploits, but the reigning Formula E champion and ex-Formula 1 driver has a keen engineering mind as well. In this first instalment of his new Autosport Engineering column, he outlines his idea to bring racing's primitive driver warning systems into the 21st century, and help buy back time that could be crucial in avoiding serious accidents
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These days it's so cheap and easy to get the position of the car and what it is doing on track, in every category from karting to Formula 1, that an automated driver warning system would be very easy to implement.
It's almost like using big data - making a race car an 'Internet of Things' device to make races safer by building big sets of data and an algorithm to analyse them - to work out what is normal on any given lap of a race track and what isn't.
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