Roborace, the new that will run alongside Formula E, will surely be a masterful technical exercise that showcases the bleeding edge of modern artificial intelligence technology. Will it be any fun to watch? Given that most of what I love about racing involves a human element, I’m not sold yet.

Most of us have our favorite drivers and personalities. With no driver in the car, the simplest method that many of us use to pick who we’d like to win a sprint race is toast. There is no Kimi, no Junior, or not even a man-like robot named Bender in a driverless racing series. (Maybe someone could put a sticker of on their car, I guess. I’ll always root for Rally Chicken.)

It’s these very human and not always predictable drivers that make racing worth watching, though. We, as an audience, love to be shocked and surprised. Sometimes drivers take more risks on one lap, then back off for a while to go at maximum attack later. Sometimes they screw up and you’re waiting on pins and needles for them to claw their way back through the field.

, not the perfect-to-the-letter bots, that Google’s autonomous cars have been struggling the most to handle. If every car is plugging away lap after neatly programmed lap, where will the action be? The fastest programmed cars will get out in front, and be able to move around the predictable slower traffic without incident.

You can’t intimidate machinery. You can’t get up in the mirrors of a robot and make them sweat by hanging right off their bumper until they either move over or screw up. Our new robot overlords don’t care that you’re a tough guy. The basic mental games racers play with each other will have no role in this series.

It’s fascinating that Roborace wants to one team of experts per race, however, what are they going to do? Talk about what how they programmed their A.I. for the entire race? I guess that’s one way to get around too-predictable action out on track.

If a team’s only advantage in Roborace is in their programming, I’m not sure teams will even share that information with fans at all. Sure, we might be able to deduce a few things from the cars’ behavior, but it will be hard to nail down why cars are behaving differently if teams don’t want to give away their technical advantages.

Will Roborace be a neat technical demonstration of high-tech artificial intelligence capabilities? Absolutely! It’s fascinating to see what we can program now, and given the push for autonomous cars, this kind of thing has actual relevance to cars people want to see more of on the road.

But will it be a good spectator sport? That, I rather doubt. Maybe they need to take a page from and allow teams to remotely attack other cars as they make expertly programmed passes.

After all, if there’s nobody inside the cars, at least we won’t feel as bad if they crash.