F1 set to trial never-before-seen feature at season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGIENCE will be trialled for the first time at the Abu Dhabi GP this weekend.
AI will be used to try to regulate track violations by drivers.
This season has seen cars often cross the white line at the edge of the track which has resulted in lap times being lost in qualifying and in the race.
This weekend will hopefully be different as the FIA will be using “Computer Vision” technology to analyse the edge of the track.
It will work out the number of pixels going past the edge of the track in Abu Dhabi and judge if the cars have strayed too far.
The FIA’s head of remote operations and deputy race director Tim Malyon has insisted that Computer Vision has been effective in medicine.
He said: “They don’t want to use the Computer Vision to diagnose cancer.
“What they want to do is to use it to throw out the 80 per cent of cases where there clearly is no cancer in order to give the well-trained people more time to look at the 20 per cent.
“And that’s what we are targeting.”
He believes that the use of AI would reduce the number of infringements being looked at.
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He added: “The biggest imperative is to expand the facility and continue to invest in software, because that’s how we’ll make big strides.
“The final takeaway for me is be open to new technologies and continue to evolve.
“I’ve repeatedly said that humans are winning at the moment in certain areas.
“That might be the case now but we do feel that ultimately, real-time automated policing systems are the way forward.”
The problems caused by cars crossing the white lines were seen in the Austrian Grand Prix as there were 1,200 potential violations being processed by four people.
In Qatar, there were eight people processing the violations but due to the amount, there were some breaches that went unpunished.