Insight Racing managed to get a sponsorship from Lotus, and when an opportunity like that comes along, one takes it, regardless of how hard it makes integration down the road. One of the first changes was to swap out the transmission with an automatic from a Toyota Matrix. Running on a slew of MacMini's booting Linux, the car is guided by 5 bumper mounted LIDARs. Rather than mounting them horizontally, the team opted to orient them vertically in order to have the broadest field of view possible. Roof mounted radar provides long range vision.

Due to the car's low profile, other teams had to re-calibrate their sensors to make sure their cars wouldn't crash into it, or in the case of TerraMax, eat it.