A car race (illustration).

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A car participating in a race reserved for autonomous vehicles was embedded in a wall just after the start on Thursday.

The competition, called Roborace, was broadcast in streaming for one of the first times in its history, reports

Business Insider

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Presse-Citron

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Roborace is the world first driver-less / autonomous motorsports category.



This is one of their first live-broadcasted events.



This was the second run.



It drove straight into a wall.

pic.twitter.com/ss5R2YVRi3

- Ryan (@ dogryan100) October 29, 2020

In the images, we see the racing car of the Acronis SIT Autonomous team setting off, immediately making a 90-degree turn to the right and crashing into a railing.

The team had to give up.

No other driverless car was involved in the accident.

The incident is believed to be due to a software programming error resulting in incorrect detection of the vehicle's position on the track.

A race to refine

The principle of Roborace is to have vehicles with identical bodywork compete.

They are however equipped with an autonomous driving system developed by each of the teams of engineers in the race.

The cars currently in competition are DevBot 2.0.

Roborace is only in its second season, dubbed “beta season”.

WHATTT 😭 It's live https://t.co/LOFjjjXKkL pic.twitter.com/Jz5mxclmH5

- Roborace (@roborace) October 29, 2020

The latter follows the “alpha season” and is still in the testing phase.

Thursday's race was one of the first to be televised online.

Last year, the first season was between vehicles that were only autonomous on part of the circuit.

The Brazilian Lucas di Grassi, a former electric formula driver, is at the origin of this new automobile discipline.

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