![\"NVIDIA](\"https:\/\/wp-assets.futurism.com\/2018\/11\/chip-maker-nvidia-bringing-ai-driving-chip-china-300x157.jpg\")
<\/div>Autonomous Commute<\/h2>
Being able to take your eyes off the road to read a newspaper while your car drives itself seemed like a distant future just a couple years ago.<\/p>
But thanks to U.S. graphics chip maker NVIDIA, that dream could become a reality as soon as the year 2020.<\/p>
The Chinese electric car companies XPeng Motors, Singulato Motors and SF Motors have signed a deal with the chipmaker to useNVIDIA’s Xavier AI chip to bring Level 3 autonomous driving — meaning that you can take your eyes off the road but still have to be able to react — to upcoming EVs in China, as reported by Reuters<\/em><\/a>.<\/p> In October, Swedish multinational car maker Volvo officially signed up<\/a> to useNVIDIA’s self-driving car platform as well. Volkswagen and Uber have also signed<\/a> similar deals.<\/p> NVIDIA introduced<\/a> the autonomous driving platform,<\/strong> including a Xavier developer kit,<\/strong> back in September. The NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Xavier car computer that comes with the kit is capable of taking care of a self-driving car’s heavy computational load — obstacle recognition, driver monitoring, and other aspects of autonomous driving.<\/p> These tasks are very hardware intensive, and according to NVIDIA’s press release<\/a>, AI-powered self-driving cars “cars must rely on numerous deep neural networks running simultaneously.”<\/p> The chip maker also released<\/a> an autonomous driving safety report back in October, to prove to federal regulators that their platform is safe to use.<\/p> The race is on to bring a mainstream NVIDIA DRIVE self-driving car to the market — whether it’ll be in the U.S. or China.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>U.S. chipmaker Nvidia to provide AI platform for Chinese EV start-ups<\/a> [Reuters]<\/p> More on NVIDIA’s self-driving car platform:<\/strong> NVIDIA Has Designed a Compact AI Computer to Drive Fully Autonomous Vehicles<\/a><\/p> The post Chip Maker NVIDIA is Bringing Its AI Driving Chip to China<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Read more here: Autonomous Commute Being able to take your eyes off the road to read a newspaper while your car drives itself seemed like a distant future just a couple years ago. But thanks to U.S. Continue reading Heavy Lifting<\/h2>
Hands Off the Wheel<\/h2>
Chip Maker NVIDIA is Bringing Its AI Driving Chip to China<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"