The Stig vs AI - One Lap ‘Man’ vs Machine Shootout!
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- Man vs Machine! It’s an increasingly relevant conundrum as manufacturers pour billions into autonomous technology - but so far the results have all been a bit, well… stop-start.
However, the new Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (aka A2RL) aims to accelerate AI development through motorsport. And rather than doubling down with EVs, it’s doing it with good old-fashioned combustion-engined race cars. A fleet of Dallara-built Super Formulas, no less.
Is the tech any good? To answer that question, we air-freighted The Stig to the Yas Marina Circuit, and lined up a race!
(And yes, we realise we might have things a bit mixed up - the A2RL race car is programmed by a whole team of people, while our tame racing driver isn’t remotely human…)
Over to Top Gear’s Editor-in-Chief, Jack Rix, to marshal proceedings…
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:58 Chat With Dr Giovanni Pau
02:48 Walkaround
05:15 The Stig
08:14 AI
14:20 Conclusion
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What would you like to see The Stig up against next?
🤔🤔 how about we fans get a chance against the stig what do you think everyone
The Mountain in Australia 👍 Blokes fast, but is he fast upside down???
Pikes Peak - World Record 🖖
ricky stenhouse jrs right hand
Ben Collins
Im pretty sure that guy from the AI racing competition is actually an AI as well.
Im starting to get the feeling this isnt a microdose
Came here to say that but you beat me to it
Dr Evil lost some weight
Came here for this. Was not disappointed.
This nerd, thinking software engineers would program race AI according to feelings like bravery and confidence, rather than simply whatever is mathematically fastest 😂🙃
Anyone in IT knows this is exactly what happens when you try to demo your code 😂
every test 2 weeks prior... zero issues... ask your team to test every possible variable... Nothing wrong... good to go...
client standing next to you... what's that do?
guaranteed BSOD...
@@RCRitterFPV exactly... 🤣🤣🤣
Every time. Without fail… well you know what I mean.
@@RCRitterFPV😂
AI is so nervous because it’s not protected by halo
Yes it's true he need a driving lésions bye max🥸
He's sooo annoying, trying so hard to be cool. Top Gear became so boring to watch. 😩
😂😂😂
I viewed this video because of the stig 😂😂
Lol mee tooooo
Same here. Not multi million dollar battle bots...
Some say that he survives on a diet of precious metals, and that he is the one that leaked private information to Kendrick Lamar.
Me tooooo
Same 😂
Nothing brings me greater joy than AI being shit
Wise words
nothing brings me greater joy than modern top gear being irrelevant
@@mich2962 yet you still watch their videos
It wasn't shit though. It's really impressive that the AI managed to do a lap at any sort of race pace. I don't have any interest in watching driverless cars go around a track because the combination of engineering and human driver talent is the point of racing for me. But as a technical exercise to advance autonomous driving I'd call this a success for AI.
They crashed into each other@@jpl8878
The Stig and the AI were definitely talking smack to each other before the race
I watched the 1st race and it was beyond painful. I had low expectations but it was really really bad. Hope they get it together.
They did complete laps, you may have not seen that part
@g0d182 they did like 4 formation laps then failed miserably foe the 2 race laps. I watched it all...
Utter pointless eh lol@@ninthundertow
Do you forget formula E ? It was a mess in the start with bateries failing every race and strategies not letting the team to even finish the race (Nissan kekw) in my opinion that's the best part of the new championships in a few years this cars will fly on the map with nearly 0 faults and it will be boring so have fun as long as you can
@@redflagy8 the only point of having ai as a driver over a human is enjoying crashes and destruction without having to worry for someone. we'll see in a few years how they play this safety part cause im sure those bots aint cheap.
I'll save you the time. The stig was 10 seconds quicker on a flying lap. No need to watch the whole video
thanks!
😂
😂 thanks
stig was 5 seconds quicker with a standing start than ai on flying lap
@@lawrencewong4347dang that ai is impressive but still pretty slow
If racing games have taught me anything, that things gonna randomly decide to divebomb your sidepods in a corner, or take out the entire field in one chicane.
This is such an unfair matchup, we all know stig has more computational power than any computer in his body than any supercomputer
Not true at all buddy machines already beat chees master even one of best gaming players...
Those AL cars just need time and you see they will be faster then humans.
@@joe125ful Over one lap, maybe, but when it comes to racing, I highly doubt it.
@@jurekgadzinowski2895 Its only question of time.
It will be one big videogame.
So in the words of Jeremy... "this was rubbish "🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I read it in his voice
Stig 100% sabotaged the AI cars
Yes:)
The interesting thing about AI is that a llm can easily require megawatts of power to run where human intelligence works just fine on a pack of twizzlers and cocaine.
3:35 Lidar and radar both use electromagnetic waves, just other frequencies. Journalist talk above science it seems
about* science*
@@2slick4u55oops, thanks for correcting me
so the car reached artificial general intelligence on it's practice laps and decided it would rather be a comedian than a racing driver haha
It's theorised that one day he may even become self-aware.
All we know is he's called The Stig!
Just shows how compact / efficient and adaptable a human is??
not really, they taught a computer to do what it takes a human years to learn.
@@davidknBullcrap! It lacks a lot compared to a living being and is not really artificial intelligent nor it learnt the same way as human being
@@toututu2993 that’s the point, looks what they’ve achieved in a few weeks/months, and think about what it will be able to do in a few years!
Why doesnt the autonomous robot have a halo? All those sensors and stuff cost a ton its got to be worth it.
Can't say I've met a single person who would want to watch and entirely AI race.
When I started to get interested in F1, the cars started to become boring. So, I don't really care that much.
But it would propably be more fun to watch AI races while they are still not perfected. Maybe there are some fun action. Though it would be super boring when they all are driving perfectly.
You heard of DARPA races?
@@GatorWinup Me or CerbeareusBane?
But yes, I have.
Well theyn you havent heard much. There were such features in some older games like F1 Championship Edition, where you could watch AIs racing against each other and it was interesting.
@@AndreasElf Wouldnt be boring if the cars were equall since the battles would be extremely intense.
Should have done cool down lap instead of stopping in the spot 🔥
programmed by non racing people 😂😂😂😂
well that was a waste of time
Good god, i didn't think it would get worse from the 1st race. Well i was wrong. It literally caught on fire on a promotional video. Whos running their PR? This series needs minimum 2 more years of development before they do anything on track.
Conclusion: Top Gear got decently paid to cover this under-baked event.
And still made it look bad!!
@@Leforge360 Because its 34th series has been scrapped 5 months ago.
Top Gear is paid to not say bad stuff about it, only for the car to catch fire😂😂
R.I.P. top gear and R.I.P. robot car
The most expensive robot wars ever. Love Stiggy! Keep drivers in cars. On the road and the track. It's a cool concept though.
I mean it doesn't feel like THE Top Gear but it's still a nice car program
He does sound like “Hamster”, though. That’s about it.
@@WDLC1911oh christ I can't unhear it now
@@ShortFilmStudiosLN 😁😂🤣
You need to let go...
Let is go dude. These videos have never been Top Gear tv show, its Top Gear magazine.
Maybe everyone can moan at Amazon for cancelling Grand Tour?
Relying on gps is a big mistake for these cars
meh, GPS is more than accurate enough for small scale navigation, the precision needed for racing is not more than what GPS can actually provide.
@@848 Disagree. Racing is a precision driving. GPS signal can be blocked, reflected and interfered with. I watched the race and that's exactly what happened. Considering the purpose of AI racing, shouldn't rely on GPS.
@@npanopUK do you know something we don’t? It looks a lot more like the ai was just badly trained. And it’s not like the car “relies” on GPS, there are tons of other sensors. Also, what’s to say they aren’t using a local positioning system as well? People understand more what GPS is so it is better to say GPS even if that is just false.
@@848 Cars were unpredictable in 13-14 due to loss of gps. Also on straights they could turn hard for no reason, that's reflected gps and car thinks it's somewhere else, thus reaction. I would use gps only to understand what sector I am on and use computer vision (segmentation) combined with lidar to "see" the track. Mimic human so to say
I think the A.I. prefers battery-powered vehicles
BMW's 330i Track Trainer back in 2007 with Jeremy Clarkson as a ride along already did this. Indy Autonomous Challenge has been running since 2021. This is LIV golf for motorsports.
At least the nerdy kids are climbing out of the basement getting exercises by putting out fires and car recovery work.
0:50 there's even one from the Politechnico of Milan!
Anyway would be super fascinating to see in the future a couple of these AIs putted inside any Motorsport grid (in this case they are more suited for superformula but maybe im the future they'll be able to put them into any racing gris!)
“EVs are killing enthusiast cars! There’s no soul in them!”
No, THIS has no soul, literally.
You totally forgot the engineers behind the software. You ignored their souls.
must by using batteries from BYD :D
AI: We're not making it out of the hood with this one.
What happens when there's a change in environmental, or tire conditions? Or even a bump from another race car?
Yeap... this is what happens when you put out things that are not yet ready.
Google's folding screens? Tesla's FSD?
A driving championship with 10 teams, and each team having one human and one AI driven car
Now that would be fun!
I feel like this is just a set up to “show” us that AI is not as good as human and we shouldn’t be scared. I won’t fall for it.
If its made for us dont expect to be perfect.
But tons of stuff are automated nowdays so it replaces alot of old jobs
Not sure about AI cars, maybe in a few decades they will have advance tactics
Top Gear doing top gear things and there is a fire? Surprising!
stig is really Daniil Kvyat in this one
This will be an interesting test to do every fue years, See how far AI comes on and then compare the latest Stig VS AI race to this one.
First you get stig driving in a dark tunnel with a dark visor now you got him driving at night with 1 🤣
As a programmer, I really don’t want to have AI racing.
Talking to computers all day, I at least want to just enjoy human beings doing the racing 😅
7:36 you can see the glowing hot brake 😮
So basically ai is a joke 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Amazing video 🎉
In SanFrancisco opponents are shutting down autonomis taxis by placing a traffic cone on the front hood. No matter how sophisticated the electronics it will never be able to deal with the unexpected. Think of that as your car drives you off a cliff.
It truly amazes me how far Top Gear has fallen
i was there when the actual event for the autonomous racing league happened. Lets just say it didn't end well. (The cars systems crashed atleast 5 times)
The end is near...
They just need more data of faster rides. In various weather, temperature , etc...
But car in one piece - huge win.
Great video, but can't believe I have to ask for an onboard side by side of both to compare Man vs AI on a racetrack...
Car racing has just entered a new level
'Radars do the same thing with electromagnetic waves' just after describing IR laser Lidar... but IR are EM too... (just a difference frequency)
Imagine sim racers driving race cars in their rigs or couch. With this tech
I was expecting The Stig and the AI car to race wheel to wheel.
TG puts a prototype on fire AGAIN !!!
I love the names of the cars: ciccia01 and ciccia02… sti pramsan magna persót!
Stig won 👍🏻
Why put the money into start a new racing tournament with less restrictions to advance cars/technology I’m sure much more people would rather watch that, high performance cars, new tactics/strategies, new builds, new teams. That would be amazing with right money/sponsorship and publicity
Ai pulled a stroll move😂😂
Imagine being both a computer nerd AND a car nerd, and getting to work on this project.
F1 should transition to first remotely controlled cars then autonomous cars. It's coming and it's inevitable however much we want to deny it..
Wow, these ai races are gonna be insane… if they can get across the start line
Whats the name of the song that is running in the background in the intro?
I missed Stig with an ice cream at Ferrari Land at the end of the video.
The Ai's controller must have disconnected before sending it off the track lol
ai can never replace the skill and actual physical feedback of the car and driver in the track.
Ho much The Stig train for driving? ... 20 years?
Let's see the AI after few years of training. Will be simply unbeatable by any human.
And that is SCARY !! The way AI getting better and better
Don’t mess with the Stiggy.
09:30 Extraction team wondering what to extract
It literally did a warm-up lap and a flying lap
I don't understand why they went to soo much effort to not drive the car...I mean, just choose a coffee table to not drive...
Wow! Almost 10 seconds! That machine needs to learn too much...
The Ai flying lap flew off the track
Reminds me of The TerraMax vs James May in Series 19 but without a fire (Idk if it an accurate comparison or not)
I’d like to see the Stig versus Ben Collins (former Stig)!!!
Come on Stiggy? Did Stig have a baby? Little Stiggy all grown up.
Anybody reading Dr.Giovanni voice in this tone ;
Gentlemen ~~ a shortview back to the past ~~~~
Infrared is also electromagnetic 👋 wave 😅, same as radio wave, just different frequency.
Gràcies per el vídeo!!!
Salutacions des de Mallorca Bros!!!
Alobiuu Willy Boom!!!
Coming up next - self living machines, competing for job at Mcdonalds
That engine sounds un holy🔥🔥
Well done Daniil Kvyat 😊
Funny you can see the sticker that probably caused the fire flapping in the wind. You'd think they would've found that out before now watching previous videos. Stickers don't stay stuck try paint.
How do you keep the Ai / pc cool ?
Haha that was the perfect add for AI race cars and it went about as well as their first race which was pretty much full of issues.
I've no doubt it'll improve but right now the systems need more testing before they can start calling it a series!
That’s not an AI issue. That’s a mechanical issue with the 🔥
Looks like Stig is not taking chances with a Ruben Barrichello situation again.
The A.I. is affected by fear it never knew.
It takes a Stig to beat a Stig
The AI car leaves an incredible amount of space to the kerb and track limits. It is very conservative when it comes to taking the racing line and makes very little use of the kerbs as well as being unaggressive in terms of taking a line. It also seems to be looking for a very smooth line as opposed to the lines of human drivers (and I'm not just talking about F1, any driver tries to get as close to the kerbs as possible). I don't have much faith in this project, but we'll have to see what they are capable of because the first race was a disaster.
Logically AI drives conservatively. Do you know why? Because it gives it more margin for error. After a few generations, it will obviously drive better. But even this is an incredible feat of engineering.
Imma call this AI "Blue Balls" because it only teased us.
With how absurd generational enhancements get with AI, each new version of that thing should be massively faster.
we all know that The Stig is Ben Collins but once, when decided to be Michael Schumacher.
I saw the first race. It was an absolute farce!
nothing can beat the Stig
This is how we should test autonomous driving. Make it a sport and after we perfected it, transfer the technology to mass production cars. This way we save lives instead of testing autonomous driving in real life right away.
Mush have needed a surplus windows update
Most advanced driverless racecar?
The Formula Student would like a stern word with you.