Chipmaker Nvidia's CEO Sees Fully Autonomous Cars Within 4 Years (reuters.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Thursday artificial intelligence would enable fully automated cars within 4 years, but sought to tamp down expectations for a surge in demand for its chips from cryptocurrency miners. Nvidia came to prominence in the gaming industry for designing graphics-processing chips, but in recent years has been expanding into newer technologies including high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars. Its expansion has been richly rewarded with a 170 percent stock surge over the past year, boosting its market value to $116 billion. "It will take no more than 4 years to have fully autonomous cars on the road. How long it takes for the vast majority of cars on the road to become that, it really just depends," Huang told media after a company event in Taipei.

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Re:Yeah, right.

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During construction or repair (for example of a bridge), when there are 2 lanes going each way with a median between them, they will sometimes merge down to 1 lane each way, then have a temporary road connecting them. The result is that the two lane separated highway becomes a 1 lane each way non-separated highway. From the point of view of GPS and maps, it looks like you have driven across the median and are now traveling in the wrong direction on the 2-lane highway.

I drew an ascii art diagram, but slashdot says I have too many 'junk' characters.