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SPECTATORS: Quarterly hack & race at Circuit Launch (w/ Brazilian BBQ) resumes!

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SPECTATORS: Quarterly hack & race at Circuit Launch (w/ Brazilian BBQ) resumes!

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Back for the second in-person event with the new track for fully-autonomous racing cars!

It's fiendishly hard & crashtastic fun. Combines hairpin curves with an intersection for maximum danger. Take that, naïve AI and hacky line-followers! Only the smartest cars will survive.

This is fun for all ages; kids are very welcome and will love it.

The Autoware Foundation (https://www.autoware.org/) is sponsoring the Brazilian BBQ and will be presenting on the work being done to bring Autoware OSS to autonomous racing with the F1TENTH Organization ( https://f1tenth.org/) and Indy Autonomous Challenge (https://www.indyautonomouschallenge.com/).

SPECIAL NOTICE: COVID-19
We are assuming that everyone over 12 attending will be fully vaccinated -- please do not attend if you are not. Children under 12 may still attend, but will be required to wear mask like everyone else. Please bring proof of vaccination (either a vaccination card or a photo on your phone).

Regardless, in compliance with Alameda County policies we will require masks at all times and hand-sanitizers will be available at the door. We are also capping indoors attendance at 150 people. Please do not attend if you have traveled internationally in the previous 2 weeks, even if you're vaccinated.

Experimental Outdoors Track. Inspired by the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Competition (RIP), this will be in the parking lot outside Circuit Launch. This first one will just be a track for you to use but no official judging; once we have some feedback on the track we'll make it official for future events. What's different about outdoors: 1) you can use GPS, 2) bigger track, for faster and bigger cars, 3) real-world lighting conditions to stress your computer vision more! Guidelines for that are here:
https://diyrobocars.com/2020/03/01/rules-and-guidelines-for-the-diy-robocars-outdoors-races/

Agenda:

• 10:00 am - 1:00pm: Training and testing

• 1:00 - 2:00 pm: Brazilian BBQ

• 2:00 - 3:00 pm: Indoor Races!

• 3:00 - 5:00pm: Outdoor Trials!

Rules are here:
https://diyrobocars.com/2019/07/22/official-oakland-race-rules-2019-edition/

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

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8000 Edgewater Dr. · Oakland, CA