Audi, Nvidia team up to bring fully automated driving

Audi has partnered with Nvidia to use artificial intelligence in delivering highly automated vehicles starting year 2020. Audi and Nvidia are long-time partners, merging the best of automotive engineering and visual computing technologies on Audi innovations such as Audi MMI navigation and the Audi virtual cockpit. Later this year Audi, will introduce the world’s first Level 3 automated vehicle equipped with a first-generation central driver assistance controller, or zFAS, that integrates Nvidia computing hardware and software.

Scott Keogh, President of Audi of America and Jen-Hsun Huang, Founder and CEO of Nvidia announced their companies’ collaboration during the opening keynote of CES 2017. To showcase their progress, Audi and Nvidia developed an Audi Q7 piloted driving concept vehicle, which uses neural networks and end-to-end deep learning on Nvidia's artificial intelligence platform to navigate a complex course. The vehicle learns from both the road and the driver in every mile it travels and can handle unpredictable situations like roadblocks, construction and changes in weather. This demonstration illustrates the power of end-to-end deep learning and how it will be one of many neural networks running simultaneously inside of an artificial intelligence car.

Source: Audi AG