For more than 120 years, racing has been used to improve the performance and safety of automobiles. Along the way, numerous innovations developed for use on the race track have trickled down to road cars. That tradition continues today, as engineers push the boundaries of autonomous systems technology.
Thanks to a big-time collegiate competition called F1TENTH, some of those breakthroughs are occurring on a small scale. The organization was founded in 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania to foster interest and innovation in the field of autonomous systems.