Nvidia BB8 autonomous car drives 80km through Silicon Valley
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sverek
Better have right driver for that speed ๐
m4dn355
Hilbert Hagedoorn
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lucidus
Fox2232
NewTRUMP Order
OK I'm missing something. Why do we need cars that drive themselves? And would you get on a plane flown, and hopefully landed, only by a computer?
Fox2232
schmidtbag
500W and they call this energy efficient? As for "This is not a demo, this is something you can get right now" ok, so where can I get this? Why is this dubbed a test? Why is still obviously in development?
Look, Nvidia, this work you've done is cool and as far as I can tell, it's very well done. But don't up-sell it's capabilities and progress for more than it really is. Tell us facts, not your (Nvidia's) own personal opinions.
Uh... planes are mostly flown by a computer, or at the very least, capable of being flown by one. And for the most part, I would trust a computer to fly and land a plane over a human.
Agent-A01
tunejunky
Meh!
i live here (Silicon Valley) and the simple fact is Nvidia wanted a piece of the pie after their gpus were used by Google/Waymo/Uber cars.
who could blame them as this is a huge emerging market, especially for electric self driving cars.
and someone asked why?
there are several whys; Safety, denser traffic flow and ultimately, the end of auto maintenance by having electric self drivers cheaper than driving yourself (incl. insurance, fuel, wear and tear, oil changes, tires, etc...)
of course this is an urban model, but hey that's where the vast majority of people live in every country.
schmidtbag
Fox2232
tunejunky
just a point about reality...
whether or not a politician wants to use the words "climate change" or "global warming" doesn't matter.
what matters is the reality of actual water levels, storms, evaporation rates (esp. for the air forces) and the related temperature levels.
this is why the U.S. military has been dealing with climate change, while the current politicians in charge are nay-sayers. the national security of every nation is at risk literally.
and honestly, does anybody really think over 500 million extra cars that never existed before 2003 and hundreds of coal burning power stations that never existed before do not have an effect on a Closed System called planet earth?
and that's just the Chinese/ Indian cherry on top of our sins since 1918.
tunejunky
oh yeah the point was that self driving electrified cars are the actual future
Agent-A01
BangTail
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schmidtbag
Denial
again with custom designed in-house hardware. So until we know the power consumption on that we have no idea what the real compute/power requirement for FSD is. As far as software optimization they're never going to train a deep learning system to understand the contextual clues a human brain can (at least not in the next decade or two). They supplement that lack of "understanding" with more sensor data to avoid accidents and like you said to avoid oddities with the tech and reflective surfaces, etc. You have to remember a lot of this started out with lots of people making really bold claims - Elon claimed you didn't need radar or anything, you could just do it with vision and now that's out the window. George Hotz claimed he could do it with just a cellphone.. lol.
As far as power requirements, I think it's a non-issue. It's a single generation of hardware, the following generation will probably have half the power for similar performance.. if that's truly the performance requirement for FSD. They can redesign the power delivery systems to handle the load. Plus I doubt anyone is going to care about 10-15 mpg loss when they don't have to drive anymore, I personally wouldn't, I'll gladly pay that extra fuel/power cost to just sit back and watch a movie on my daily ~1Hr commute through NJ garbo traffic. Long term FSD just completely changes everything in terms of efficiency. No one will own cars anymore, you'll just sub to a monthly fee and when you want to go somewhere just summon one and go. The vast majority of cars spend something like 80%+ of their life in a parking lot. So you're going to yank millions of cars off the road. Plus can eliminate tons of parking - which will make city parking/design easier and more efficient. Traffic Elimination because Grandma Georgina is no longer going to merge into a 65mph highway at 30.
Also Nvidia has been testing FSD cars out of their Holmdel NJ office since at least 2013. I've seen them on the garden state parkway several times. I don't think they are as far along as Waymo is but I think they are further along than Uber/Tesla. The difference is that Nvidia is shipping this as a system to car manufacturers - so there is most likely a significantly larger liability there. They need to be 10,000,000% sure the system is safe before they start activating it across Volvo/Audi/Etc.
Tesla has replaced the hardware on it's vehicle several times already as they move the goal posts for FSD and they are doing it schmidtbag