Cavalier Autonomous Racing (CAR) Hoo Crew News Coverage
UVA’s robot racecar team, Cavalier Autonomous Racing, has a storied history dating back to 2021, when the team was among the first competitors in the inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge.
The following are some news headlines from the past several years.
2025
IAC at CES 2025 features first race with four autonomous cars at once (The Robot Report, Jan. 10)
Video: OFFICIAL LIVESTREAM: Autonomous Challenge @ CES 2025 (YouTube, Jan. 9)
2024
Podcast: Autonomous Racing: How AI Powers Cars at 184 MPH | DRIVEN Ep. 27 - Conversation with Madhur Behl (DRIVEN with Paul Perrone '95, CEO of Perrone Robotics, Oct. 29)
Video: Cavalier Autonomous Racing Team Win at Indy Speedway (WUVA Student Life, Oct. 12)
Podcast: Cavalier Autonomous Racing: Record Breaking Victory and Beyond (Hoos In Stem, Oct. 4)
Indy Autonomous Challenge 2024: AI at High Speed (Electronic Design, Sept. 25)
Watch as UVA Displays Its New High-Speed, Self-Correcting AI Algorithms (UVA Engineering, Sept. 24)
Indy Autonomous Challenge – A Fusion Of Speed, AI And Human Emotions (Forbes, Sept. 13)
Indy Autonomous Challenge Is Giving AI a High-Speed Education (Autoweek, Sept. 13)
UVA's "CAVCAR" Wins AI Racing Speed Trial at Indy Autonomous Challenge (Sports Illustrated, Sept. 13)
UVA: First American Team To Win Indy Autonomous Challenge (Global Auto Mobility, Sept. 12)
Indy Autonomous Challenge 2024 Breaks Records (Highways Today, Sept. 11)
Record breaking speeds by autonomous cars (Rocking Robots, Sept. 11)
Record-Breaking Speeds at Indy Autonomous Challenge (Self Drive News, Sept. 10)
Indy Autonomous Challenge Returns to Indianapolis Motor Speedway With Record-Setting Speeds (Business Wire, Sept. 10)
Video: Research-Driven Goals Set the Pace for UVA’s Robot Car (UVA Today, Sept. 9)
UVA’s Robot Race Car Wins in Record-Setting Fashion (UVA Today, Sept. 9)
University Of Virginia Becomes First American Team To Win Indy Autonomous Challenge, Averaging 171 MPH (Forbes, Sept. 7)
UVA's Robot Racer Zooms to Victory at Indy Speedway (UVA Engineering, Sept. 7)
OFFICIAL LIVESTREAM: Indy Autonomous Challenge 2024 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Indy Autonomous Challenge, Sept. 6)
Video: Indy Autonomous Challenge: The AI and automation car race (CNBC, Sept. 6)
Podcast: At First You Don't Succeed: Stories about trying again (The Story Collider/YouTube, June 13)
Podcast: Autonomous Racing (Good Disruption, June 3)
How Autonomous Racing Is Pushing Self-Driving Cars Forward (Inverse, March 23)
Bringing AI up to speed – autonomous auto racing promises safer driverless cars on the road (The Conversation, Feb. 14)
Fast and curious, Virginia pioneers autonomous racing (Cavalier Daily, Feb. 8)
Team working on next steps for UVA’s autonomous racecar (NBC29, Jan. 23)
UVA students’ self-driving Indy Car makes headlines with unconventional win (Interesting Engineering, Jan. 20)
UVA students’ self-driving car nabs second place in a major race (InceptiveMind, Jan. 20)
From Setback to Comeback: UVA’s Robot Race Car Nabs 2nd in Major Competition (UVA Today Jan. 18)
2023
Autonomous race car makes pit stop at UVA (CBS19, Nov. 20)
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Stomps the Gas So We Can Take Our Hands Off the Wheel (UVA Today, July 5)
Virginia’s Madhur Behl pushes the envelope in robot race cars (Automotive News, Jan 1)
2022
Indy Autonomous Challenge race at CES pushes limits of autonomous vehicles (WTOP, Jan. 8)
Technology To Drive the Future of Autonomous Vehicles (Startups Magazine)
2021
The Social Value of Racing Cars (Radio IQ WVTF, Nov. 10)
UVA Earns International Bragging Rights for Driverless Racing (UVA Today, Oct. 25)
Inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge To Bring 'Shock And Awe' To Brickyard (Autoweek, Oct. 19)
The Race to Win at Driving the Driverless Car (Virginia Public Media, June 3)
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