Nvidia Test Drives Autonomous Cars In California Roads: They Do Not Need Road Markings

As the Department of Motor Vehicles gave green light to Nvidia, the company started test driving autonomous vehicles on California roads. Nvidia is testing its Drive PX2 autonomous driving platform.

Xavier A System On Chip For Autonomous Cars Rolled Out By Nvidia

Xavier is described as an artificial intelligence supercomputer. The company has made various moves in autonomous car arena. A partnership with Baidu has been signed to build a cloud to car platform for simultaneous cars. The PX2 technology might be used in the Nvidia vehicles participating in the autonomous car race termed as Roborace, Tech News World reports.

Nvidia Autonomous Car Can Navigate A Construction Site, A Road with Dirt, Grass With No Markings

The system built by Nvidia does not require any programming for mapping, object detection, control components or path planning. The system is developed in such a way that it learns on its own to create the necessary requirements after observing human drivers. The system takes 20 trial runs of a situation driven by humans, Motor Authority reports.

Other Competitors

Nvidia is competing with Intel and Qualcomm for the business of autonomous car industry. Nvidia is solution independent in terms of automakers. Whereas Intel is an 800-pound gorilla in the chip market. Atom 3900 processor has been built by Intel for the autonomous car industry.

Nvidia is trying to focus on bringing high-level artificial intelligence into the autonomous car driving industry. It is supporting SAE level 4 and 5.

It is the only company having a packaged solution which works at this time. Nvidia is partnering with companies like Ford, Audi, Daimler, Tesla and BMW for the sake of autonomous driving.

Car makers all over the world are testing the possibilities of autonomous vehicles, but such cars may require traffic-free roads. Companies like Baidu might become a power in self-driving cars in the future.