Watch a racer drive itself around Silverstone

You should have heard of Roborace by now. It’s the all-electric, autonomous race-series designed to support Formula E – the not-so autonomous series which in the past couple of weeks has become a bit of a big deal, thanks to Audi’s announcement that it’s set to ditch WEC for it beginning next year.

Well, we’re pleased to report development of the Roboracer itself continues apace, with the team behind it launching another video of its ‘DevBots’ testing at Silverstone, both with and without driver.

We recently had a go in a car that can drive itself, at speed, around a race-track, and we can verify it is exactly as scary as it looks…