I watched the first Autonomous Racing League event and while it certainly wasn't exciting, it was unintentionally hilarious

Over the weekend, the very first event in the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) took place, with 600,000 people watching it online. Two races took place (AI vs human, plus AI vs AI), along with a raft of entertainment for the visitors. While autonomously driven cars are certainly going to be prevalent on our roads in the future, the notion of it being a sport sounds as dull as the inaugural race turned out to be.

If you're wondering what it was all actually like, you can watch a repeat of the online stream on YouTube.