On Friday's quarterly conference NVIDIA chapter reminded that DRIVE PX as a platform for the creation of autonomous driving vehicles is used by nearly 250 clients of the company, and not all of them are planning to use it is in cars. Jensen Huang considers the car segment one of the most promising for his business.
NVIDIA chapter identified two obvious trends that allow the company to make in the automotive segment. Firstly, it is the evolution of infotainment systems, which require modern processors with rich graphics. Thus, if in the segment of mobile Jensen Huang praises the operating system Android, in the automotive segment, it allows long-term coexistence of different software platforms.
The second important trend for the company - the development of driver assistance systems, which in some perspective it can be replaced. The first generation of these systems was based on data received from the sensors, the second generation appeared camera with object recognition. Car manufacturers will build open computing platforms, using artificial intelligence to the autopilot system can continuously improve. NVIDIA believes that the components and software companies need to create such platforms, including cloud sphere.
According to Jensen Huang, the main challenge here is not even the creation of hardware. Many functions can be performed by a person entrusted to microcontroller cost $ 3, and $ 5 for the product is not enough to realize the automatic driving. The main component here - it's computing and software. NVIDIA is committed to create a computing platform that will contribute to the development of autonomous driving. At the same time ownership of the program by the decision to maintain for the automakers, NVIDIA will give them only the necessary tools.
At the end of his monologue, he added that if the same autopilot will be created, it will make the world around us better. People who are unable to drive, easier to get a chance to move in space. People who should not trust the wheel will be removed from the control. Driving would be safer for others. But before this becomes a reality, it is necessary to work seriously.