NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz Sign New Autonomous Vehicle Partnership
For the masses, it may still be many years before a daily commute or a long road trip is handled by a fully autonomous car. Nevertheless, tech companies and automakers are hard at work to make it a reality, and the first iteration of the technology may be closer than you think.
One of the earliest applications for autonomous driving is set to be fleet and delivery services -- as well as limited human input autonomy for passenger vehicles. A new partnership between NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Daimler (OTC: DMLRY) subsidiary Mercedes-Benz could accelerate that vision. The two companies agreed to begin jointly working on a new computing architecture that will start rolling off assembly lines in a few years time.
While a self-driving vehicle will most certainly be a tangible thing, it's the software that controls it that's really important. And on this front NVIDIA shines. The company has built an autonomous vehicle platform called DRIVE using its graphics processing unit technology, a service that reports under NVIDIA's fast-growing data center segment. DRIVE is a cloud-based platform that allows the company's partners to train AI software algorithms in a virtual environment before deploying the system to a car for real-world testing.
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