Volvo has announced a new initiative to put its own self-driving cars on the road by 2021. The Swedish carmaker is teaming up with Autoliv (a Swedish-American firm that makes automotive safety systems) to develop the necessary software, while a partnership with chipmaker Nvidia will supply the computing power.
Volvo’s cars will be powered by Nvidia’s Drive PX ‘supercomputer’ — a custom hardware array designed specially for self-driving cars. The Drive PX2 can process data from 12 video streams at once, as well as juggling input from lidar, radar, and ultrasonic sensors. Put all this together and you have the necessary data to keep your self-driving car on the straight and narrow. If you’ve got algorithms that can tell stop signs from...
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