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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.
X = something that may or may not happen in a few years.
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Man selling autonomous car parts says big things about autonomous cars.
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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!
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And of course when Windows 95 came out it had a built in TCP/IP stack.
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Winter is the time of year when it gets cold, the days are shorter, work and recreation both slow down preceding the end of the year. It is usually used to describe something that is coming to an end of some sort or the end of one thing and the beginning of something new depending on the context.
In this case I would say he is leaving it open to interpretation either the money will dry up and the idea die or it will slow down and then evolve into something else. My guess is that we will end up with a very good auto-pilot but not fully autonomous vehicles.
I'm not sure about "lifetime", but "any time soon"? Agreed. And I say this as a big Tesla fan. But the edge cases are just way too numerous, and not something you can just sweep on the rug with "oh, but it'll be safer because it never gets distracted...." Yeah, try telling that to the family of the person you just killed in a situation that a human could have easily avoided.
The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
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.
The folks you should be afraid of is the NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) as they'll fight self-driving (and potentially self-delivering) vehicles to their dying breath. Oh, BTW, they're one of the largest lobbying groups at both the state and national levels. Expect laws to enable self-delivery to be delayed a number of years due to this boneheaded lot.
We should try to create something like the internet superhighway but for cars :-)
Autonomous cars will be more successful if they can be partitioned away from the pesky human controlled cars. Creating special separted lanes for them would be a reasonable thing to do if we can assume that the flux in these lanes will rise or other benefits ensue (fewer accidents, more personal productivity leading to willingness to pay toll fees benefitting the highway system for everytone in return for not having to drive). If so then everyone, not just the elite early adopters of expensive self driving cars, will benefit from the special treatment of these vehicles in their own high bandwidth lanes.
later on, as these cars dominate, we can move toward integrated systems outside the highway sandboxes.
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