Technology Magazine September 2020 | Page 67

“ Together , we ’ re going to revolutionize the car ownership experience , making the vehicle software programmable and continuously upgradeable via over-the-air updates . Every future Mercedes-Benz with the NVIDIA DRIVE system will come with a team of expert AI and software engineers continuously developing , refining and enhancing the car over its lifetime .”
The other nexus of self-driving vehicle development is not in the US , but in China , where DiDi leads the way . The Chinese Uber equivalent ( Having
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NVIDIA ’ S DRIVE AGX
NVIDIA ’ s DRIVE AGX is an embedded supercomputing platform for autonomous vehicles . Features include :
• Processing data from camera , radar , and lidar sensors to perceive the surrounding environment
• Localising the car to a map
• Planning and executing a safe path forward
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