The Simulated Car Racing Competition was organized in conjunction with WCCI-2008, the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. The competition was the spiritual successor of the previous car racing competition held at CIG-2007 (the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games) and CEC-2007 (the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation). The goal of this year's competition was to learn, or otherwise design a controller for The Open Racing Car Simulator (TORCS), a state-of-the-art, open source, car racing simulator, which could be able to race for a certain number of laps on a set of three unknown tracks, alone or against other drivers.
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