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Painted in the colours of the Argentine capital’s two most famous football teams – River Plate in red and white, and Boca Juniors in yellow and blue – DevBot 1 and 2 race through the city’s streets.

The driverless electric cars, developed by Roborace, need to communicate with each other and continually scan their environment to avoid collision. “It is so exciting to see these vehicles taking appropriate actions in order to guide themselves around the track,” says Roborace CEO Denis Sverdlov.

Roborace hosts the first global championship for driverless cars, and this race on 18 February, watched by cheering crowds, was the first ever display of two autonomous cars on a race course at the same time. Unfortunately, an unexpected living competitor swerved DevBot 1 and 2 off their course: a dog caught up in the excitement broke through the barriers, which ended one car’s race with a crash. Thankfully the cars’ systems were advanced enough to avoid the canine intruder completely.