NVIDIA started commercial use of the automatic driving system 'Drive AutoPilot'

It was announced that " Drive AutoPilot " of the automatic driving system under development by NVIDIA became the world's first system that meets level 2 (partial automatic operation) of automatic driving category . By satisfying level 2, Drive AutoPilot will be able to control not only cruise control function and lane control function but also steering, acceleration / deceleration etc. automatically.

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NVIDIA's automatic driving system "Drive AutoPilot" integrates software with NVIDIA's high-performance SoC "Drive AGX Xavier" and processes data collected from sensors outside the vehicle and in-vehicle sensors to realize automatic operation something like. Continental, already a German automobile parts maker, has developed an automatic driving system of Level 2 or higher using this Drive AutoPilot and announced that production is scheduled to begin by 2020.

Danny Shapiro, senior director of cars at NVIDIA, said at a news conference, "The level 2 or higher automatic driving system is a very robust and complex high performance computer and computing stack," said Level 2 or higher We emphasize how difficult it is to realize the system. Also, "Automatic driving system is already based on AI and many deep neural networks are used for the perception component of the system.We use a complete surround camera and 4 cars depending on the car manufacturer, 6 We will have more than a few cameras on the car and we will process them based on the powerful AI Supercomputer Nvidia AGX Xavier. "

According to Shapiro, Drive AutoPilot will be able to change lanes, drive on expressway, create personal map, etc. In addition, the system will be able to monitor drivers in the car and warn if drowsiness and distracting attitude are confirmed during driving. In addition, even if the partner company builds another system on this Drive AutoPilot, it will be possible to use the complete wireless software update function.

Tim Bajarin, an analyst at Creative Strategies, said: "Level 2 is the next step for an automated driving car and the goal is to be achieved by all major automakers in 2020. Automatic It will be difficult to fully estimate what the influence of the driving car will be until the next decade ", and the next ten years will influence how the automatic driving car will affect the world It is becoming important to measure whether or not.

In addition, NVIDIA announced that in 2020, partners including Continental will begin production of vehicles equipped with Drive AutoPilot. According to Mr. Shapiro, "To make it possible for drivers to control cars with voice commands, the system is equipped with a cloud We need to be able to process speech without accessing it. "

In addition, the car equipped with Drive AutoPilot learns how to move from one point to another while driving, and also has the function of creating "personal map" which increases data on public roads.

Mr. Shapiro points out "processing performance" as Drive AutoPilot is superior to other automatic driving car systems, and Drive AGX Xavier of SoC installed in this system can calculate 30 trillion times per second , Which means that it is a specification that greatly exceeds other advanced driving support systems (ADAS) that are on the market.

In addition, NVIDIA announced about Drive AutoPilot in CES 2019 simultaneously demonstrated "demonstrate whether autopilot is going to change the lane, to integrate data inside and outside the car to the driver" is.