[CES] Formula 1 Team, Intel Demonstrate WiMAX-controlled Car Race

Jan 10, 2008 18:16 Kouji Kariatsumari, Nikkei Electronics

The BMW Sauber F1 Team, a Formula 1 (F1) motor sport team, has set up "Pit Lane Park," a hands-on facility that reproduces an F1 pit lane, in the parking lot at the 2008 International CES. Visitors can see a demonstration of a running F1 car and experience a pit stop at this facility.

With a small circuit set up for WiMAX-based radio control cars in a corner of the facility, visitors can also enjoy races using two WiMAX cars equipped with cameras. Specifically, visitors remote-control these WiMAX cars from Intel Corp's booth inside the CES exhibition building, which locates hundreds of meters away.

Visitors can drive the WiMAX cars watching video transmitted from the cars on a notebook PC screen, sitting in driver's seats copying that of an F1 car at Intel's booth. Intel said it intends to highlight WiMAX's coverage area, which is larger than that of existing wireless LAN, through this demonstration.

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