Competing for Autonomy

Client: Lucy Mair, G-Research <Lucy.Mair@gresearch.co.uk>

As autonomous vehicles become more common, we are likely to see people tweaking algorithms to accelerate their journeys. Your task is to create a competitive 'market' in which users can submit algorithms to see which is the best. You'll need to define a simple scripting language and API suitable for creating the entries. Users should be able to enter their script into an interactive game then see its performance in a real-time car race against other user's scripts. The best entries should be stored and ranked in a leader board, with new players able to see existing code and tweak it for better performance. In future, this kind of algorithm market could be applied to other problem domains such as finance.