“That’s just an incredible amount of growth, and that shock and awe factor definitely helped lift Nvidia’s stock.”

Meanwhile, revenue from Nvidia’s sales in the automotive industry, from self-driving and in-car entertainment technology, climbed 24 percent. The incident comes at a particularly inopportune time for self-driving car companies in California: The state is set to allow autonomous cars, without any human support behind the wheel, for testing and transporting people on public roads beginning April 2. Our global fleet of manually driven data collection vehicles continue to operate.”

Uber had been using Nvidia’s tech for a while

The company is the latest to halt autonomous vehicle testing after a self-driving Uber car struck and killed a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona, last week.
U.S. graphics processing unit producer Nvidia suspends all its tests of self-driving cars.