Last week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed featured two AV demos: Roborace’s Robocar was the first driverless car to complete the famous Hillclimb; and Cranfield University fielded a 1965 Ford Mustang converted to – sometimes – drive itself with Siemens technology.

Roborace is planned as a support series for Formula E, where teams will use the same hardware – an Nvidia Drive PX2 computer, lidar, radar, GPS, ultrasonic and camera sensors – in combination with their own algorithms and AI to develop an autonomous race car.

The Robocar drove up the hill relatively smoothly at a speed that, though not quite race pace, demonstrated the capabilities of current AVs.

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