Waiting for the Autonomous 500
I don't know if this has ever been done, but it should have been. Take a bunch of self-driving cars and turn them loose on a NASCAR track. It should have been done before they put them out on the street with real drivers.
It would be interesting to see the results. Would they stay in their lanes when there are no markers to guide them? Would they try to pass one another? When the inevitable crashes happen, will they slow down and follow the pace car? When the tow truck comes out to clear the wreckage, will the remaining vehicles run into it? Or mow down the crew?
Of course the programming for the event would be a bit different from "follow this map to get from Point A to Point B" and they might have a little trouble handling the concept of "win the race" but hey - people can understand it, even if they wouldn't necessarily succeed. And if the self-driving vehicles can't understand it they shouldn't be on the road. Anywhere.
It would be fun to watch such a race. Maybe call it the IIROC: "Imitation Intelligence Race Of Carnage". But stay out of the pits because these things don't know the difference between a street and a railroad track and have been known to run into emergency vehicles. And people.