The importance of software in the highly competitive motor racing – Hypertext

For many years the sport cars of high competition has been marked by the same factors: performance and driving quality of the pilot on the one hand, and the raw material with which this account, ie the car and mechanics that the team develops and delivers to the races. Recently, however, there is another big factor is establishing itself as essential in commercial auto and high competition, as we see in The Verge, and is the software .

e began to be relevant in the automotive industry some time ago, but not at the level it is now given in Formula E, competition research electric cars. And since last year, when until all the cars were similar in practice, it was decided that each team can develop its own transmission, which came into force in the current season. Now, software is helping and hurting drivers equally.

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for example, in the Formula Renault team E have recognized that the problems they had in Malaysia to software controlling the electrical system, not considering resulted how they would affect conditions in the programming of the car. Like computers, control temperature and remaining power are now the main obsessions in competitions of electric cars. A car battery may have, but if it exceeds healthy temperature can reach a stop.

The software helps the car’s behavior homogenize , for example, being smarter when choosing whether to use regenerative braking or mechanical, knowing that the first stored energy in the battery but also make warming, as we have said is a priority issue. The car can thus, in some cases, taking decisione where it is already clear that some artificial intelligence has to be applied. In this sense, statistical and analytical becomes more important than ever , and 140 hours doing for example in the Team Mahindra hourly simulation racing very helpful.

at the moment the average career lasts, and certainly battery, the energy efficiency that provides software intelligence is being and will be very relevant. All this will help, later, to autonomous cars to debut at the top level. It seems that for now, yes, man is far superior to the machine, especially when it is able to process the same information.