California Gives Nvidia Go-Ahead To Test Self-Driving Cars On Public Roads

[Megalith]

Those of you in the Golden State may be able to catch a glimpse of that familiar green logo on the roadway. California’s DMV has granted Nvidia a permit for testing self-driving vehicle technology, and one vehicle has already been spotted in the Bay Area.

While Nvidia is best known for its graphics cards, the company has spent the last few years steadily pushing into artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on autonomous driving. It announced a computer vision system tailor-made for self-driving at the Consumer Electronics Show in 2015, and then followed that up with a more advanced version — called the Drive PX2 — at this past year’s CES. Since then, Nvidia announced that it was partnering with Chinese web giant Baidu to build a platform for semiautonomous cars. (Baidu has approval to test autonomous cars in California as well.) Nvidia also built test cars, and was training them in parking lots and private roads prior to receiving this new approval from the California DMV. And this summer, a self-driving race car competition called Roborace announced that it was using the Drive PX2 in its vehicles.

 

[Spidey329]

And this summer, a self-driving race car competition called Roborace announced that it was using the Drive PX2 in its vehicles.

Won't be nearly as fun without the greats like Ricky Bobby adding some spice to the sport.

 

[OutOfPhase]

New meaning to "my nvidia driver is crashing".

 

[drakken]

They are just one of the many companies... but really roads with sets of rules, when traffic is doing what it is supposed to be doing the computers likely are safer, yet I remember driving in cali. Someone would hit someone in rush hour traffic and everyone up to five miles behind them would slam on their brakes and try not to run into the car ahead of them. If the computer stops too fast they may not hit the car ahead of them but the car behind them may not have time to react. True it is the fault of the person behind as you are required to be in control of your car at all times. Yet the driver getting hit from behind is not going to be happy. People follow way too close just before, during and after rush hour. Also driving down a narrow country road and something runs across the road is it going to be able to track the motion of color across a background? Orange cones are bright orange or yellow so people have no trouble seeing them. Training the computer to avoid running over cones is great but can a computer tell the difference between motion on the road and city buses with advertisements?