NVIDIA and TomTom Develop Mapping System for Self-Driving Cars

[HardOCP News]

NVIDIA and TomTom, the Dutch mapping and navigation group, today announced they are partnering to develop artificial intelligence to create a cloud-to-car mapping system for self-driving cars. The work combines TomTom's extensive HD map coverage, which already spans more than 120,000 km of highways and freeways, with the NVIDIA DRIVE™ PX 2 computing platform. Together, the solution accelerates support for real-time in-vehicle localization and mapping for driving on the highway. NVIDIA co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the collaboration at the company's inaugural GTC Europe, a regional version of its annual GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley, now in its seventh year. "Self-driving cars require a highly accurate HD mapping system that can generate an always up-to-date HD map in the cloud," said Rob Csongor, vice president and general manager of Automotive at NVIDIA. "DRIVE PX 2 for AutoCruise provides TomTom with a real-time, in-vehicle source for HD map updates."

 

[spacecowboy863]

hmmm....now where is that video of tesla car running over that scientist again? they were boasting about their self driving car but i guess they forgot to program the "watch out for pedestrian" feature

 

[nutzo]

And this is the most dangerous part of the push for self driving cars.
Any car connected to the Web could be hacked. If it's connected to the web, what's to stop the government from requiring a remote shutdown backdoor?

Riot in progress, just shut down all the cars to keep it from spreading, and to keep people from escaping the violence.