{"id":33865,"date":"2025-05-20T16:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/?p=33865"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T16:19:08","slug":"driverless-car-race-returns-to-abu-dhabi-this-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/driverless-car-race-returns-to-abu-dhabi-this-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Driverless Car Race Returns to Abu Dhabi This November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi is gearing up for another high-tech motorsport showdown as the <strong>Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) returns to Yas Marina Circuit on Friday, November 15, 2025<\/strong>. After drawing over 10,000 spectators and more than a million virtual viewers last year, the driverless car race is back with even higher stakes \u2013 a prize pool exceeding AED 8 million.<\/p>\n<p>For 2025, the league introduces A2RL SIM-Sprint, a virtual global racing series designed to help teams to train AI algorithms in dynamic, simulated environments and test edge cases that don\u2019t often arise in real-world conditions. In the future, <strong>SIM-Sprint aims to open its digital circuit to indie developers, university teams, and motorsport gamers<\/strong> \u2013 potentially creating a path from screen to speedway.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-33866\" src=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/897780d3bed07e71b7ce181e026bdce5-1-150x75.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This second edition brings new faces and features to the autonomous racing scene. Here\u2019s what to expect:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expanded international roster: <strong>research teams from ten countries<\/strong>, including newcomers France and Japan, will join the action alongside returning competitors from the USA, Germany, China, Singapore, Italy, and the UAE.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Upgraded race cars<\/strong>: all vehicles are based on the Super Formula SF23 chassis, the fastest open-wheel race car outside of F1 \u2013 now enhanced for autonomous control.<\/li>\n<li>New model debut: the <strong>EAV-24 capable of reaching speeds up to 300 km\/h without a driver<\/strong>, which includes next-generation sensors, smarter AI control systems, eco-friendly materials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Planning to watch autonomous race? Here are the event details:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi<br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> Friday, November 15, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi is gearing up for another high-tech motorsport showdown as the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) returns to Yas Marina Circuit on Friday, November 15, 2025. After drawing over 10,000 spectators and more than a million virtual viewers last year, the driverless car race is back with even higher stakes \u2013 a prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":33867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"tags":[{"id":15448,"slug":"news","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"}}],"countries":[{"id":15497,"slug":"uae","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/uae\/","api_id":254,"title":{"rendered":"UAE"}}],"cities":[{"id":15499,"slug":"abu-dhabi","link":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/uae\/abu-dhabi\/","api_id":2,"title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi"}}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinumlist.net\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}