That a supercar reaches 318 km/h is not news for many years. It is that a bugatti chiron friction in circuit 500 km/h. And there were already cars in 1988 that exceeded 400 km/h, as was … The case of Corvette Callaway sold for 420,000 euros a few years ago. Instead, the look is another if that luxury car that has reached 318 km/h does not carry anyone behind the wheel, right? Then we can talk about the fastest driver’s without the world, honor that, for the moment, falls to the MASERATI MC20 Coupe of 630 horses who has marked this speed tip in a newly carried out test in the United States.
The record that this Maserati has taken place in Cabo Cañaveral (Florida), On the Space Florida (LLF) track of the Kennedy Space Centerin the state of Florida. It is a straight asphalt track, which seems eternal because it is designed to terrify space ferry. Specifically, it exceeds 4 and a half kilometers in length and has a width that goes beyond 91 meters. Now, as Maserati, the LLF, explains, which was once used mainly for government operations in the United States, “has become a vibrant innovation, research, manufacturing and aerospace evidence center.”
This iconic scenario has been chosen for the development of World Autonomous driving record attempt. The initiative has departed from Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), which organizes a autonomous driving car racing championship and the Milan Polytechnic, the largest scientific university in Italy.
The car closely
Maserati
The first of the two entities, the IAC, has put the car, a Maserati MC20 Coupé at the service of this project. And the Italian University has developed the artificial intelligence that has allowed this modified luxury sports car to function autonomously reach 197.7 MPH (318 km/h). «Without human driver on board», Highlights the Italian firm.
This data exceeds the previous point record of an autonomous car. It was also established Indy Autonomous Challenge and Polimov-Part of the AIDA Performance Division, the area of the aforementioned University that is dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence for autonomous cars-in the same place in April 2022 with a racing car IAC AV-21. That day the world record was set at 308,994 kilometers per hour, ten less than the speed reached by the Maserati MC20 Coupé.
The circumstance is given, Maserati reports, that this same racing car, the Maserati MC20 Coupé of the Autonomous Challenge that has now managed to become the fastest in the world driven by a robot, without a human being at the wheel, also has the speed record of the autonomous production car, when it reached in November 2024 of 2024. Now, with the modifications introduced in the car, it has raised the bar again raising its peak speed at more than 40 km/h with respect to the previous record.
According to the companies involved in this milestone, «Achievement represents a great step forward in the development of high -speed autonomous driving And it shows how high -speed autonomous careers can be transferred to trams ».
The lateral car
Maserati
What does this speed record in autonomous driving mean
For Paul Mitchell, Executive Director of Indy Autonomous Challenge, The record achieved by the Maserati MC20 Coupé is much more than an anecdote or that viral news. “These world speed records are much more than a simple showcase of the technology of the future,” he says.
For the expert, this record represents an advance because “we are carrying the driving software with artificial intelligence and robotic hardware to the absolute limit.” And doing so, he adds, «is helping the learning of autonomous careers become a Safe autonomous mobility, protected, sustainable and high speed on highways ».
In fact, the project developed in Space Florida Launcha and the Landing facility of Kennedy Space Camos de Cabo Cañaveral did not have as the sole objective to beat the record of the speed world of an autonomous driving car. He also sought to test, in limit conditions, to the technology developed by the Polytechnic of Milan.
«The objective of high speed tests is Evaluate the behavior of robot conductors in extreme conditions», Recognizes the scientific director of the project and director of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Polytechnic of Milan, Professor Sergio Matteo Savaresi.
The test team
Maserati
The systems have tested since 2021, according to Maserati, in production vehicles at legal speeds within the autonomous car races of the Autonomous Challenge Indy, but with this test “robustness and the AI reaction timeultimately improving security in urban mobility situations at low speed, ”explains Sergio Matteo Savaresi.
For Maserati and its members in this project that has led to break the world record of an autonomous vehicle, it has as its great objective “to resolve real world challenges, overcome the limits of innovation and improve safety and performance both in motor sports and in urban and commercial transport.”
The two Maserati who have circulated in Florida
Maserati
Maserati has put a second autonomous vehicle, a convertible sky, at the service of the project, parading at the 1000 Miglia Experience Florida, an event that is held for the first time in the United States and emulates the historic Italian career in which this same sports one participated in 2023, when he toured 60 kilometers of the tour in autonomous driving.
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