Monash University students have built Australia’s first driverless racing car.

Paras Bhutiani is not your average racing-car driver. He can’t see the track or feel the wind as the car whips through the chicane. In fact, he’s not even behind the wheel.

Paras heads the Monash University team that has developed Australia’s first student-built driverless racing car.

It has taken 200 students more than three years to create the M19-D, a competition-standard racing car, which will debut at next year’s international ‘Formula Student’ driverless car race in Germany.

When it comes to seeing the track, the car itself detects the road and surrounding environment in real time through an advanced laser scanner and a stereoscopic camera system that judges distance like a human eye using artificial intelligence.

