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54 S ince its founding in 2006, the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) has annually taken part in the various Formula Student competitions across Europe, which are aimed at encouraging innovation and enterprise among student engineers. In 2017, Formula Student announced a driverless group of racing competitions, and the AMZ Driverless team was formed to design, construct and enter an autonomous racecar in the event. AMZ Driverless has since won first place in all three Formula Student driverless racing seasons, developing considerable in-house hardware and software (and judiciously selecting third-party components) to power their cars to victory. While the 2019 season had not yet ended when we spoke to AMZ Driverless, the 2018 season had. Thus the team – specifically CTO Miguel de la Iglesia Valls, automation engineer Hubertus Hendrikx and SLAM engineer Andreas Buhler – were happy to talk to us about their 2018-winning car, the ‘gotthard’ (the team The driverless version of this Formula Student electric racecar has proved impossible to beat. Rory Jackson looks at its development Autonomous ruler October/November 2019 | Unmanned Systems Technology AMZ Driverless originally developed the gotthard for an electric racing season in 2016, and updated the design with systems for autonomy to compete in the 2018 Formula Student driverless season, which it won (Images courtesy of AMZ Driverless)