Howdy All,
This is an illuminating article that was published on 23 June 2020 (yes, it's a few years old) discussing a press event between NVIDIA and Mercedes on the launch of a partnership for “groundbreaking, software-defined, high-performance computer architecture for driving assistance and autonomous drive.”
The author, Alex Voight, writes with a certain amount of scepticism about how Mercedes & NVDIA could possibly meet the anticipated launch date, towards the end of 2024, and he questions amongst other things:
- how they could develop software functionality alone that just a few months back Mercedes had tried and failed to build as a partner with the likes of BMW
- how they could develop autonomous driving software that needs data to train self-learning algorithms without having any real-life driving data yet or even a fleet of vehicles with a required set of cameras and sensors to collect such data
- how they could build critical components like sensors in the time frame given
- how energy consumption of the best NVIDIA automotive chips is very high and this would have a negative impact on the vehicle range
I have plucked a few extracts only but the whole article is worth a read.
I think we all know why Mercedes (and dare I say it, NVIDIA) were so confident in tackling the aforementioned challenges and meeting the launch date, don't you?
IMO. DYOR.
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The CEOs of Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia announced today at a press event that they were launching a partnership for a, quoting Ola Källenius, “groundbreaking, software-defined, high-performance computer architecture for driving assistance and autonomous drive."
cleantechnica.com