NVIDIA is now busy actively promoting its DRIVE PX platform for automatic transport management systems, and it has managed to attract not only automotive components manufacturers Bosch and ZF, but also major automakers: Daimler, Audi / Volkswagen, Tesla and Volvo. This is only a small part of more than two hundred partners, as the head of NVIDIA said yesterday, because only last quarter the number of customers of the company in this direction has grown by one and a half times.
At the GTC 2017 event this year, the company announced the beginning of cooperation with another major car manufacturer - Japanese Toyota Corporation. It is expected that this automaker will use the DRIVE PX platform based on the Xavier generation Tegra processor to create a car autopilot that will appear on the group's production cars in a few years time. Note that until now, Toyota was very cautious about the timing of the introduction of "full autopilot", preferring to gradually transfer powers to electronics.
According to representatives of NVIDIA, DRIVE PX modules based on the Tegra processor of the Xavier generation are capable of processing up to 30 trillion. Operations per second, while consuming no more than 30 watts, and content with the dimensions that allow to be placed in the human hand. Previously, NVIDIA repeatedly stated that such a module based on a single Xavier processor is able to implement the "autopilot of the fourth level" in the SAE classification, and it is already the penultimate in terms of management autonomy .
Two teams of engineers have already begun work on a project for Toyota. Which of the models of the concern will be the first prototype, is not specified, but in the illustration with the GTC 2017 a sedan concealed by a canvas is depicted. Toyota has only one global model with similar outlines - it's Camry. Related Products :
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