While Australian team Monash Motorsport scored a memorable 1-3 with its combustion car winning the event outright and its electric car team coming third behind Oxford Brookes Racing, one of the main talking points at this year’s event was the creation and introduction of a driverless element to the competition. The vehicles will be provided by StreetDrone, a company that has been set up by Mark Preston who is very well known in motor racing circles as a former Formula 1 technical director and currently the team principal of the TECHEETAH Formula E team. The StreetDrone ONE is an autonomous vehicle (AV) platform designed to open up self-driving technology to educational institutions, as well as programmers and developers outside the traditional car industry. The basis of the car is the Renault Twizy hatchback that has been modified to include 360 degree cameras, laser sensors, customisable panels and a fully customisable operating system. However, for Formula Student, it has come … [Read more...] about Driverless cars coming to Formula Student