A timeline tracing driverless racing from the DARPA Grand Challenges and early autonomous vehicle milestones through Roborace and the Indy Autonomous Challenge, where vehicles now reach 155 mph on Formula 1 tracks. It would chart the engineering breakthroughs, sensor failures, blind-corner edge cases, and safety lessons that make high-speed autonomous racing a brutal stress test for self-driving technology. This timeline was generated automatically by TimeStrands AI from Wikipedia research. Facts are sourced; framing may be imperfect.