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NVIDIA Introduces NVIDIA DRIVE For Cars
Transporting the world closer to a future of auto-piloted cars that see and detect the world around them, NVIDIA today introduced NVIDIA DRIVE automotive computers - equipped with powerful capabilities for computer vision, deep learning and advanced cockpit visualization.
NVIDIA will offer two car computers: NVIDIA DRIVE PX, for developing autopilot capabilities, and NVIDIA DRIVE CX, for creating the most advanced digital cockpit systems. These automotive-grade in-vehicle computers are based on the same architecture used in today's most powerful supercomputers.
"Mobile supercomputing will be central to tomorrow's car," said Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO and co-founder, NVIDIA. "With vast arrays of cameras and displays, cars of the future will see and increasingly understand their surroundings. Whether finding their way back to you from a parking spot or using situational awareness to keep out of harm's way, future cars will do many amazing, seemingly intelligent things. Advances in computer vision, deep learning and graphics have finally put this dream within reach.
"NVIDIA DRIVE will accelerate the intelligent car revolution by putting the visual computing capabilities of supercomputers at the service of each driver."
NVIDIA
DRIVE
PX
The
NVIDIA
DRIVE
PX
autopilot
development
platform
provides
the
technical
foundation
for
cars
with
completely
new
features
that
draw
heavily
on
recent
developments
in
computer
vision
and
deep
learning.
DRIVE PX leverages the new NVIDIA Tegra X1 mobile superchip, which is built on NVIDIA's latest Maxwell GPU architecture and delivers over one teraflops of processing power, giving it more horsepower than the world's fastest supercomputer of 15 years ago. DRIVE PX, featuring two Tegra X1 superchips, has inputs for up to 12 high-resolution cameras, and can process up to 1.3 gigapixels per second.
Its computer vision capabilities can enable Auto-Valet, allowing a car to find a parking space and park itself, without human intervention. While current systems offer assisted parallel parking in a specific spot, NVIDIA DRIVE PX can allow a car to discover open spaces in a crowded parking garage, park autonomously and then later return to pick up its driver when summoned from a smartphone.
The deep learning capabilities of DRIVE PX enable a car to learn to differentiate various types of vehicles - for example, discerning an ambulance from a delivery van, a police car from a regular sedan, or a parked car from one about to pull into traffic. As a result, a self-driving car can detect subtle details and react to the nuances of each situation, like a human driver.
NVIDIA
DRIVE
CX
The
NVIDIA
DRIVE
CX
cockpit
computer
is
a
complete
solution
with
hardware
and
software
to
enable
advanced
graphics
and
computer
vision
for
navigation,
infotainment,
digital
instrument
clusters
and
driver
monitoring.
It
also
enables
Surround-Vision,
which
provides
an
undistorted
top-down,
360-degree
view
of
the
car
in
real
time
-
solving
the
problem
of
blind
spots
-and
can
completely
replace
a
physical
mirror
with
a
digital
smart
mirror.
Available with either Tegra X1 or Tegra K1 processors, and complete road-tested software, the DRIVE CX can power up to 16.8 million pixels on multiple displays - more than 10 times that of current model cars.
Positive
Industry
Support
Ricky
Hudi,
executive
vice
president
of
Electrical/Electronics
Development
at
AUDI
AG,
said:
"Audi
and
NVIDIA
share
a
common
belief
that
machine
learning
is
a
powerful
enhancement
to
our
zFAS
Piloted
Driving
technology.
Thus,
Audi
sees
DRIVE
PX
as
a
crucial
tool
for
further
research
and
development."
Thilo Koslowski, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, said: "The realization of smart automobiles requires high-performance processing solutions that enable sophisticated sensor fusion and innovative machine learning. This will create a new class of self-aware and ultimately self-driving vehicles that can assess, sense, understand and react to the state of their surroundings and occupants."
Availability
Both
NVIDIA
DRIVE
CX
and
DRIVE
PX
platforms
include
a
range
of
software
application
modules
from
NVIDIA
or
third-party
solutions
providers.
The
DRIVE
PX
autopilot
development
platform
and
DRIVE
CX
cockpit
computer
will
be
available
in
the
second
quarter
of
2015.