[ars]

> But racing requires intense and constant concentration and quick reactions

Which is exactly what computer are great at. What they are terrible at is dealing with incomplete information.

A computer would actually make a great race car driver.

[rickmb]

I don't think it would. Because part of racing is gambling on the other driver to back off when fighting for position. And when I say "gambling", there are a lot of very human factors involved in trying to figure out an opponents likely behavior. It's not like chess.

[ars]

Computers actually play poker rather well.

And in racing computers have no fear for their life, and they know exactly what their (cars) limits are - I think it could be done.

[InclinedPlane]

Above all racing requires situational awareness, which computers are very bad at. For ordinary driving scenarios the bar on situational awareness is fairly low, but that bar goes way up in racing.