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Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com)
Nvidia said on Tuesday it will suspend its autonomous vehicle testing on public roads in the aftermath of Uber's fatal crash in Arizona. Uber is a customer of Nvidia's, using the chipmaker's computing platform in its fleet of self-driving cars. From a report: Nvidia had been testing its self-driving cars in New Jersey, California, Japan, and Germany. The company is hosting its annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose this week, where it is expected to make several announcements regarding its automotive products. "Ultimately AVs will be far safer than human drivers, so this important work needs to continue," a Nvidia spokesperson said in an email. "We are temporarily suspending the testing of our self-driving cars on public roads to learn from the Uber incident. Our global fleet of manually driven data collection vehicles continue to operate."
Boo hoo somebody died because the tech is is ready yet. It is a solvable problem and one that is needed since humans do barely better than an automated system. Why does everyone think that the Human is superior to what can be created? What ever happened to Mankind being able to do great things and solve hard problems. Do you know how many people were lost during the building of the Panama Canal to Malaria, or lives lost to the exploration of the Earth during the turn of the 20th century?
We've lost our balls and our teeth. Go back to your fields, or better yet go back to hunting gathering and worried about small pox or being afraid of "Other" people. I'm embarrassed to be part of this generation.
If you disagree don't bother debating with me, I'm not listening.