Toyota's automatic driving car adopts NVIDIA's in-car AI computer "DRIVE PX"

ByHans-johnson

Audi, Volvo, and Tesla are focusing on the development of automatic driving cars, but Toyota, the largest automobile manufacturer in Japan, also has plans to make automatic driving cars appear by about 2020 I understood that there was. Such an automated driving car developed by Toyota includes an automatic driving platform using NVIDIA supercomputer "DRIVE PXIt is said that it will be equipped.

Toyota is using Nvidia's supercomputer to bring autonomous driving to the masses - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/10/15617554/toyota-nvidia-autonomous-car-partnership

In 2016, NVIDIA will launch AI computer for automatic driving car that manages automatic driving car sensors and cameras with AI super computer "NVIDIA DRIVE PX"Has been announced. Such NVIDIA was held from May 8, 2017GPU Technology Conference 2017, Announcing partnership tie-up with Toyota, revealed that Toyota's automatic driving car equipped with DRIVE PX will be released to the market by about 2020.


The demonstration of NVIDIA Drive PX 2 can be seen from the following article.

Demonstration of deep learning by development unit "NVIDIA Drive PX 2" that realizes automatic driving car looks something like this - GIGAZINE


However, detailed information on Toyota's automatic driving car and the automatic driving system adopting DRIVE PX has not been announced yet, and Toyota does not disclose the development plan such as which model is based. For the past, Toyota has two paths as a long-term goal in developing fully autonomous cars. One is an automatic driving car that can switch between manual operation and fully autonomous operation, and the other is an automatic driving car for elderly people and people with disabilities. As part of Toyota's automatic driving technology, accident prevention system that switches driving to AI according to danger "Guardian Angel(Guardian angel) "has been developed, it seems NVIDIA technology will be combined with the operation of this system.

In addition, NVIDIA announced SoC "Xavier" which supports AI of automatic driving technology in 2016. Within Xavier you can perform 30 trillion deep learning operations per second, with an architecture called "Volta" of only 30 watts of power. Volta appears to be the key to bring out the performance of artificial intelligence and is scheduled to be released in the second half of 2017.