<story><title>Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-chip-supplier-self-driving-hardware-its-five-years-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m still not happy with self-driving on vision alone, or vision augmented with radar.  There are too many hard cases for vision.  Everybody who has good self-driving right now - Google, Otto, Volvo, GM - uses LIDAR.&lt;p&gt;Self-driving is coming to the first end users in 2017, in Volvo&amp;#x27;s test of 100 vehicles.  Volvo has multiple LIDARs, multiple radars, multiple cameras, redundant computers, and redundant actuators.  They&amp;#x27;re being cautious. Yet they&amp;#x27;re getting there first.&lt;p&gt;With the new hardware, Tesla ought to be able to field smart cruse control that doesn&amp;#x27;t ram into stopped vehicles partially blocking a lane.  They&amp;#x27;ve rammed stopped vehicles at speed three times now. At least with the new hardware things should get better. Do they still have the radar blind spot at windshield height?</text></comment>
<story><title>Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”</title><url>https://electrek.co/2016/11/11/tesla-autopilot-chip-supplier-self-driving-hardware-its-five-years-ahead/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>randomdrake</author><text>Super cool to see NVIDIA releasing hardware specifically meant to be a platform for building self-driving systems[1]:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;NVIDIA DRIVE™ PX 2 is the open AI car computing platform that enables automakers and their tier 1 suppliers to accelerate production of automated and autonomous vehicles. It scales from a palm-sized, energy efficient module for AutoCruise capabilities, to a powerful AI supercomputer capable of autonomous driving.&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I hadn&amp;#x27;t heard of this before and with their purported pivot to an AI company, I can&amp;#x27;t wait to see what other platforms they develop in a similar capacity.&lt;p&gt;[1] - &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nvidia.com&amp;#x2F;object&amp;#x2F;drive-px.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nvidia.com&amp;#x2F;object&amp;#x2F;drive-px.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>