Slot cars (source: Wikimedia Commons)
Watch out, geeks and nerds! The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication hosts a prestigious international competition of self-driving model cars called Freescale Race Challenge.
Students have to build and pre-set slot cars that will compete in 20 lap race on an unknown track. The cars won’t be remotely controlled – they will have to explore the track on the first lap and since the second lap they are supposed to know whether they are riding on a straight sector or they are passing a turn. The vehicles will map the track through accelerometers measuring the centrifugal force.
Source: a press release of Brno University of Technology (edited)
The competition takes place at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (4 Kolejní st.) on Friday, April 30, 2 p.m.
