They said it on f1tv at the Austrian GP I believe. Or earlier but they have said it. It’s to create a clear colour distinction between kerbs and the edge of the track.
Whether it’s “AI” is the question but it’s definitely an algorithm.
Whether it’s “AI” is the question but it’s definitely an algorithm.
Nah man, 'AI' is the tech buzzword of the first half of the 2020's to take the place of absolutely anything that a computer does. Analyze a video? AI. Autofill credentials on a website? AI. Run a VBS script? AI.
Just like 'blockchain' was for the back half of the 2010's.
I'm not sure I'd characterize even LLMs as AI. Depends on context of course, but to grossly oversimplify things, they're basically advanced database queries. They don't really know anything.
For example, if you ask ChatGPT "is the sky blue?", it doesn't actually know what the answer is. It doesn't know what blue is, or what the sky is. It's just regurgitating an answer based on the data it's been fed without any form of understanding or anything like that. Again, an oversimplification, but I wouldn't characterize it as truly intelligent in any fashion.
You're into philosophy at this point about how you define intelligence. LLMs can get closer to the classic 'can you tell you are talking to a machine' definition than anything previous.
Everything’s gotta be AI because buzzwords go brrr.
It’s computer vision. I was using that back in uni to track projectiles in videos to analyze their flight path as part of a first-year physics class. My research lab was using it on CT scans to speed up diagnoses of various medical issues. Self-driving cars and lane-keeping systems use it to stay in the lane. It’s not new technology, but it can be very effective under the right circumstances.
Now, whether computer vision qualifies as “AI”, that I don’t know. It’s just an algorithm, but then again, that same simplification could be applied to LLMs, too, if we want to be particularly reductive.
People have also started using AI and ML so interchangeably these days. I agree there are applications where they blend and overlap, but it's not always the case.
LLMs fall under the ML category and any algorithms that use any kind of ML trained models tend to be classified as AI these days (unfortunately).
Beginning of the year the FIA incorporated this blue line track limits solution in their track design homologation manuals. So expect to see more of it .
How come it’s only been at these two circuits? Shouldnt others with large runoff areas etc also have them in that case? I’ve seen now it’s also been implemented at Spain and Austria but surely there’s more tracks that would need it
I suspect the goal of moving the white line into the kerbs is to more closely align the official track limits (white line) with the amount of kerb that stops making sense for cars to take for optimal lap time.
That way there will be fewer penalties because it's not worth that much to go to the absolute limit in every lap.
Which I think is a pragmatic and sensible approach. Only drivers that go over the other side of the kerb get a penalty, which is clearly further out than anyone should be.
I suspect the goal of moving the white line into the kerbs is to more closely align the official track limits (white line) with the amount of kerb that stops making sense for cars to take for optimal lap time.
The curb outlay is typically designed around the geometric line through a turn and the phases of the turn. The braking zone, the apex, and the exit. Tracks are used by many different types of vehicles and is not optimized for any specific type.
That way there will be fewer penalties because it's not worth that much to go to the absolute limit in every lap
Track limits are typically enforced at points where exceeding them will offer an advantage.
Only drivers that go over the other side of the kerb get a penalty, which is clearly further out than anyone should be.
Depends on where the track is. There are differences in regulations on what point track limits are exceeded.
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