Watch a Self-Driving Race Car Crash before It Starts

From Car and Driver

• A self-driving race car made an abrupt turn and crashed into a wall as soon as it started during the first live broadcast of Roborace, an autonomous-vehicle race series.
  

• Four of six teams failed to finish the three-lap time-trial race held in the United Kingdom.

• This harmless vehicular faceplant comes as several companies are expanding their testing of self-driving technology on public roads.

Here's your daily reminder that a future filled with self-driving cars isn't as imminent as some might like you to believe. In the first live broadcast of the Roborace autonomous-vehicle race series, one self-driving car left the starting grid and immediately veered into the pit-lane wall. For Acronis SIT Autonomous, the Swiss team fielding the car, the race was literally over before it began. Their car never made it across the starting line.