LAWRENCE — Computer science students at the University of Kansas will test their skills throughout the remainder of the semester with a series of races using self-driving model cars developed by Amazon Web Services.

The students in Andrew Williams’ Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class have spent the semester programming their cars and virtually testing the results using AWS’ DeepRacer, a cloud-based 3D racing simulator. For the races ongoing throughout the remainder of the spring semester, though, students have built a real track in the atrium of the School of Engineering’s LEEP2 building and are testing their AI programs using 1/18th-scale