We’ve seen a couple of attempts at getting an autonomous racing series off the ground in recent years from the likes of Roborace and others, but none have really found much traction. A new series called the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) hopes to change that.

The series was announced on Monday Jan 11, 2021, during the 2021 CES show and features racecar chassis designed by the experts at Dallara — you may know it as the firm that does all the chassis for the Indy Car series others. Interestingly, this is being run as a spec race, where the cars are all identical mechanically and it’s each team’s software that gives it a competitive edge.