Nvidia Suspends Self-Driving Car Tests in Wake of Uber Crash (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:25AM from the roadblock-in-development dept.

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."

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Why though? by wardrich86 · 2018-03-27 06:01 · Score: 1, Informative

1. The pedestrian was J-Walking
2. The driver was paying no attention to the road.
3. The sensor wasn't able to respond in time.

I think the nVidia chip is the last thing that should be faulted here. We have two clear cases of human stupidity to blame before the chip comes in. They should just re-brand it as "Computer Assisted Driving" instead of "Self-Driving".