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RARS is an acronym for Robot Auto Racing Simulator. It is an open source 3D racing simulator. RARS is designed to enabled pre-programmed AI drivers to race against one another. RARS was used as the base for TORCS. It was used as an example in the book Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining by Mieczysław Kłopotek. It was a monthly on-going challenge for practitioners of Artificial Intelligence and real-time adaptive optimal control. It consists of Each participant could submit a robot (a file written in C++) which controlled the car and competed to win the race.