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Breeding Race Cars With Genetic Algorithms

Posted by timothy on from the inbreeding-isn't-just-for-the-cheap-seats dept.

smack-pot writes "Wired News has an article about how the Digital Biology Interest Group at University College, London is using genetic algorithms to breed superfast Formula-One race cars. 68 design parameters were configurable in the cars, and the generated designs were tested using the racing simulation software developed by the game developer Electronic Arts. According to the research it is possible to shave off 88/100th of a second per lap by using genetic algorithms to tune the cars. In an industry where a tiny fraction of a second matters, that's significant."

4 of 187 comments (clear)

  1. Yes. But does it run by aussie_a · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    on Diesal?

  2. Re:Genetic algorithms explained by mewphobia · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's a bad link.

  3. Re:Genetic algorithms for Slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sometimes dupes are good - I missed this the first time round.

    Isn't it more of a waste of your time to read the dupes, then post announcing that it's a dupe?

    (I saw one story, a few days back, that had more than a dozen posts saying "dupe!" One openly abused one of the editors. How childish is that?)

  4. Re:Shallow Article by pclminion · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow. Tell us, what've you been smoking today? Something highly evolved, I hope!