> I think the AI is close to cheating, if not doing it already. It seems to know awfully well how slippy the road surface is. Well, I've played the endurance

> I think the AI is close to cheating, if not doing it already. It seems to know awfully well how slippy the road surface is. Well, I've played the endurance rounds with some friends on GT when we were in the off-season and rebuilding our cars so we pulled out our bucket seats from our cars and had the wheel and peddle setup to have a laugh: these are the kind of races that take 3+ hours with drive swaps in between and have gotten close to winning on completely worn tires only to then be clipped from behind from a lapped AI car and lose it all a couple of laps away from checkered flag. It's frustrating, but we tried again that day and got the award and I think Sony knew that it's loyal customer base always would, which is why it's moving in this direction without even hiding what it's doing. If you want pure racing simulators without all the fluff, perhaps iracing is exclusively where you'll have to go for that now. I'm not exactly sure what to say about it now that I'm older with less time and patience (and perhaps jaded about the video game Industry as a whole) for such things or the fact that I study AI/ML but I see this more as a data-driven iterative step towards leveraging it's brand in order to maximize engagement Online via social media [0] and sales via video games new business model (DLC and other misc purchases) than it is about providing the 'The Real Driving Simulation.' Which makes the intro of GT2 (still the best in my view) [1] all the more ominous with it's choice of music being a form of Machiavellian foreshadowing and crushing poignance. 0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIm11cthgWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIm11cthgWU 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e701QHyCr0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e701QHyCr0o