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NVIDIA To Install Computers In Cars To Teach Them How To Drive

Posted by Soulskill on from the learn-by-doing dept.

jfruh writes: NVIDIA has unveiled the Drive PX, a $10,000 computer that will be installed in cars and gather data about how to react to driving obstacles. "Driving is not about detecting, driving is a learned behavior," said Jen Hsun Huang, CEO of NVIDIA. The data collected by Drive PXes will be shared, allowing cars to learn the right and wrong reactions to different situations, essentially figuring out what to do from experience rather than a rigid set of pre-defined situations.

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  1. Re:Defeating the purpose by Wycliffe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What are they going to learn?

    My guess is that they are going to learn what causes accidents and what doesn't cause accidents.
    We humans are really really bad at driving. You're basically stating all the bad things that we do.
    That is good input for a computer because it can see what causes accidents and remember not to
    do that and compare it to what doesn't cause accidents. I'm not sure I would trust a system like
    this to drive a car but it could easily be used to grade a computer (or a person) on their driving
    style.

  2. Re:How's that again? by Shoten · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I slam on the brakes suddenly because I remember something I forgot at home, what will the computer make of that?

    That you live in Florida?

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