Nvidia sets sights on the driverless revolution with Drive PX Pegasus

Nvidia sets sights on the driverless revolution with Drive PX Pegasus

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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/10/nvidias-drive-px-pegasus-is-its-newest-self-driving-supercomputer/

On Tuesday, Nvidia announced a new version of its automotive-grade compute platforms, Drive PX Pegasus. It's recognition that the computational needs of fully autonomous (also known as level 5) vehicles are going to be demanding. Such vehicles will have to fuse inputs from multiple sensors and sensor-types, then make sense of it all with no fuss to get us from A to B. "The reality is we need more horsepower to get to level 5," said Danny Shapiro, Nvidia's Senior Director of Automotive.

In 2015, Nvidia first announced its Drive PX platform, which is built around a pair of Tegra processors. Drive PX 2 was next, and this unit is what'sĀ found in current Tesla electric vehicles as well as Volvo's Drive Me research program. Then came Drive PX Xavier, a low-power unit which is also being used by Bosch to develop a an automotive computer.