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Its a good guess that the simulator or game engine behind this competetion is TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) [1].

Simulated Car Racing (SCR) [2], is an existing annual AI car racing competition based on TORCS, though without the attractive prizes. It also has a client-server architecture with controls and sensor information sent over UDP using what seem like lisp sexps.

[1] http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://scr.geccocompetitions.com/

[ravich2_7183]

Another even better guess is that the udacity self driving car course [1] will see a huge upswing in enrollment.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373