Roborace challenges Tesla in response to Laguna Seca record with a Model S

Roborace's Twitter account challenged Elon Musk to compete in a race against one of its fully autonomous driverless Robocars

Manufacturers' races to achieve lower track times are already becoming a trend. If Elon Musk The record time announced by Porsche at the Nürburgring did not sit well with him, it is now Roborace that through its Twitter account has recently challenged Elon Musk himself to a race.

Tesla announced a few days ago a New record time at Laguna Seca with a Model S, in response to Porsche, and just an hour and a half later, Roborace asked via Twitter if Elon would be willing to compete against one of his fully autonomous Robocars.

Rob It is a driverless vehicle in which, in fact, There is not even room for one personThis vehicle is capable of driving around the track completely autonomously without the intervention of any human, not even remotely. Using Artificial Intelligence and a complex sensor system, the Robocar is able to travel around the circuit at full speed.

The engineers who developed the Robocar are so confident in this vehicle that They have no doubt that it would beat the Model S at Laguna Seca. Although Elon Musk has not yet responded to the challenge launched by Roborace, the truth is that it is not necessary. All they have to do is take one of their Robocars to Laguna Seca, beat the time set by Tesla with a Model S and also announce it to the four winds.

This is the autonomous vehicle of Roborace

Roborace's autonomous vehicle features four electric motors of 135 kW each, which give it a total power of around 500 horsepower. The maximum speed of the Robocar is 320 km/h, much higher than that of the Model S Performance which is limited to "only" 261 km/h.

It should also not be forgotten that the weight of the Robocar is considerably lower. Among other reasons because You don't have to carry a driver weighing about 75 kgSo, with all this data on the table, at first glance it seems that the Robocar could win the race.

In any case, to achieve this you would have to be able to reach the goal and overcome, among other difficulties, The legendary corkscrew from Laguna SecaThe vehicle uses a number of sensors, such as GPS, LiDAR, ultrasound and several cameras, to position itself on the track and be aware of everything around it.

We'll see how it all ends.