Vice President of NVIDIA Rob Csongor, who is responsible for the business of automotive components, took part in the meeting of the US Congress Commission, which supervises the development of autopilot systems for land transport and the rules governing the relevant tests. The main arguments in favor of speedy development of "robots", which led the representative of NVIDIA - is reducing the accident rate and mortality on the roads, increasing the mobility of people who can not drive a car, as well as optimizing the city infrastructure and reducing "unproductive time."
NVIDIA already cooperates with 225 manufacturers of auto components and cars, it calls on the US authorities to develop uniform federal rules that would regulate the testing of prototypes of "robobooms" on public roads in this country. Now each state puts forward its demands, and if in one region of the USA there are no minimum restrictions on testing, then in another it may be necessary to accompany the prototype with a police car. Closed polygons can not reproduce all possible scenarios, so active tests in real conditions would allow automatic control systems to gain experience faster. Moreover, unified rules would simplify the testing of prototypes in different climatic zones and weather conditions.
Tesla recently notified customers that it uses fragments of photo and video taken by Tesla's on-board cameras to improve the company's autopilot system. Owners of cars of this brand noted that the volume of outgoing traffic in their home wireless networks has increased significantly. Electric cars diligently send "road sketches" to Tesla servers to speed up the accumulation of "collective experience".