Please find enclosed a first release of a system for modelling a race
track with 17 cars.
Self-intelligent actors of course favored over photorealism here.

They accelerate or brake in response to what they see in front of them,
and always steer to the clearest path in front of them.  Pretty cool,
although with the parameters set the way they are right now, it seems
that they are a bit too eager to come to a complete stop.  But hey
that's probably how traffic jams happen--some bloke following too close
behind, who then has to slam on his brakes!

I envision getting this to the place where different racers can actually
*compete*, albeit just for now in picking the ideal parameters for how
close one will tolerate getting to one's neigbhor before braking/ how
far away before accelerating....

Code posted to p.b.-s.f..

(Whew! I was afraid Rune was going to beat me to this.  Not that we are
in a race, but sometimes he implements better solutions to my ideas
before i can!)

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