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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CEO says X that will do Y

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

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.

Move along, nothing to see here.

[ThomasBHardy]

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

Yeah, right.

[Viol8]

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!

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.