What is Autonomous Racing?


No driver, just software. Driverless vehicles are the vehicles of tomorrow. Autonomous racing is the ultimate engineering challenge. The driver is replaced with a variety of sensors that act as the eyes and ears of the vehicle, feeding the data to a control algorithm that students develop and tune.  Machine Learning (Artificial Intelligence) is often used to interpret sensor data.

The official vehicle of the Indy Autonomous Challenge is the Dallara-built AV-24, the World's Fastest Autonomous Racecar, introduced at CES 2024 to replace the original AV-21. The AV-24's Dallara chassis is a modified version of the classic "Indy Lights" chassis design.