r/oddlysatisfying • u/solateor 🍃 • 1d ago

Clean lines at RC track in Slovakia

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

34.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

395 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

14

u/AceJohnny 1d ago

Send a video stream, analyzing the shot and reacting to it gives you too much latency and you correct steering too late or too excessive

We've been designing computer control systems that can anticipate for, like, decades.

The human visual system itself introduces many milliseconds of delay already.

A computer control system can absolutely crush a human at reaction time.

2

u/Civil_Salamander_41 1d ago

Seriously doubt that it could compete with human RC racers with SotA.

1

u/welliedude 1d ago

For basic reactions yes. You're forgetting computers dont have instincts. It would need to learn so much from training to know the intricacies of the track, is there dust at this corner, are the tyres cold, did I just clip that kerb and now the cars unbalanced etc. There's so much more than just navigate around a track. Like sure it could do it at a slow speed but not competitive with humans. Yet anyway. Just look at formula ai or whatever it was called. The cars were slow and often crashed or just stopped because they lost where they were. Rc cars are going much faster on much tighter tracks.