Pushing the Boundaries of Automated Driving

The Indy Autonomous Challenge stages events in which high speed defines the operational design domain.

In late April 2022, SAE Media editor Bruce Bennett spoke with Paul Mitchell, CEO of Energy Systems Network, a 13-year-old nonprofit organization that organizes and manages various public-private partnerships in the energy and transportation sectors. Energy Systems Network created the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), a technical competition involving nine teams from 21 universities competing in a series of driving challenges to develop software and systems capable of controlling fully automated racecars at speed. An edited version of their exchange: