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- March 19, 2019
- 6 minutes read
Toyota and Nvidia Collaborate On Self-Driving Tech
Toyota self-driving vehicles undergo testing image: Toyota Toyota has tapped Nvidia for a collaboration to ‘develop, train and validate self-driving…
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| Toyota self-driving vehicles undergo testing image: Toyota
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Toyota has tapped Nvidia for a collaboration to ‘develop, train and validate self-driving vehicles’, Nvidia announced on Monday at the on-going GPU Technology Conference (GTC) . This partnership builds on an already existing relationship with Toyota to utilize the Nvidia Drive “scalable AI platform for autonomous driving”, and is based on collaboration between teams from Nvidia, Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD) in Japan and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in the U.S.
Nvidia says the agreement included the development of “an architecture that can be scaled across many vehicle models and types”, boosting production and development timeline, and also “simulating the equivalent of billions of miles of driving in challenging scenarios.”
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| A Toyota self-driving vehicle image: Toyota
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“Our vision is to enable self-driving vehicles with the ultimate goal of reducing fatalities to zero, enabling smoother transportation, and providing mobility for all,” TRI-AD CEO Dr. James Kuffner said. “Our technology collaboration with Nvidia is important to realizing this vision. We believe large-scale simulation tools for software validation and testing are critical for automated driving systems.”
“Self-driving vehicles for everyday use and commercial applications in countless industries will soon be commonplace. Everything that moves will be autonomous. Producing all these vehicles at scale will require a connected collaboration for all elements of the system. Our relationship with TRI-AD and TRI is a model for that collaboration.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang also added.
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| Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang image: Nvidia
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Both companies says an “end-to-end simulation toolchain” they’ll collaborate on will help enable Toyota, TRI-AD and TRI to bring automated vehicles to market.
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