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:AD winter

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly. All hype curves are followed by a disillusion phase, when the technology (or whatever) is not living up to the hype. It is followed by another phase where the real applications are found.

It is now evident that good automated driving will take care of boring monotonous labor of driving for hours on highways. However, the city (and even rural) scenarios prove to be very, very difficult.

I've not seen a credible L3 (let alone L4 or L5) FuSa or SOTIF (let alone high-availability) concept at any of the vehicle OEMS I've talked to. Of the OEMs, only one american company (not Tesla) has made a sound economic model for how and when AD/ADAS vehicles can be profitable. Pro tip: it's not selling them to people who let them sit and rust at parking lots 22 hours per day.

Re:Yeah, right.

[Rei]

Interestingly enough, "rush hour traffic" is what current Level 2 systems are best at. Not at picking lanes, but at everything else. Lots of cars to help them stay centred in the lane even when lane markers are bad, slow speeds, etc, etc. It doesn't mean you can ignore the road, but it does mean less having to constantly focus on a line of unmoving cars to avoid the situation where if you don't start moving as soon as the car ahead of you does, people behind you get mad and start honking.