And DevBot has a driver. The bare-bones car was built to test the technology that will be used by Roborace, so it has the exact same drivetrain, sensors, communication technologies, and processing capabilities as the race car will have. But it’s still in the testing stage, so there is a driver inside a custom-built “standardised safety compliant racing cabin” while DevBot is on the track. The DevBot team has reached this point in the development of an autonomous race car in about 9 months, and Roborace is scheduled to begin during the 2016/17 Formula E race season. Teams for the series will come from motorsports, research laboratories, and universities. These teams will have a chance to experiment with DevBot before a pre-qualifying process next month, according to Roborace organizers.
