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

Posted by msmash on 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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  1. Nvidia? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is every tech company thinking they have the domain expertise to get into the car industry?

    Tesla is proving they have no idea how to scale manufacturing. This seems like the kind of things you partner with an actual car maker instead of just grafting this on later.

    Because at this rate we're going to end up with dozens of different self-driving cars, all of which have their own quirks and warts.

    What could possibly go wrong?

    1. Re:Nvidia? by darkain · · Score: 3, Insightful

      nVidia is one of the top companies in the world doing artificial intelligence research and development. GPUs are no longer GPUs. They're now GPGPUs, allowing for massive parallel processing of data on their hardware. nVidia has been at the forefront of non-graphics usage of GPUs for quite some time. Obviously here on Slashdot, we're all aware of GPUs being used for crypto mining, but they're also used for a wide array of other technologies.

      Or, if you want a TLDR: who better to do image processing from cameras on a car, than a company that their entire core business is based around image processing?

  2. Nvidia working on AV tech? by Bobrick · · Score: 4, Funny

    At this point I'm just waiting on Nestlé, Pfizer and Coca-Cola to also announce they're pausing their autonomous vehicle development. Is Burger King also working on AV tech?