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

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

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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  1. CEO says X that will do Y by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Y = raise the value of the stock options that is vesting in this quarter.

    X = something that may or may not happen in a few years.

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  2. Move along, nothing to see here. by ThomasBHardy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Man selling autonomous car parts says big things about autonomous cars.

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  3. Yeah, right. by Viol8 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other than his cynicism in blatantly trying to raise his companies stock price self driving cars will never be fully automated until they have a good understand of human psychology as well as the rules of the road and laws of physics. Maybe driving in the nice wide roads and intersections in the US is relatively simple, but lets see these cars navigate a european or far eastern city where its very hard to get out of a side turn unless you push out, or streets that are 2 narrow for 2 way traffic and the automated car is coming down it but someone decides to come up the other way anyway.

    And theres the true test - lets see one navigate itself around the l'arc de triomphe roundabout in Paris. Good luck with that Mr Huang!

  4. Re:CEOs by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Pay? Everyone used Trumpet Winsock which was shareware though very few people paid.

    https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...

    And of course when Windows 95 came out it had a built in TCP/IP stack.

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