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The next frontier for self-driving cars: Making them human

sudshr47 January 8, 2018

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was positively giddy as he showed off the company’s next-generation chips at one of the first events of CES 2018.

The processor, called the Drive Xavier, is made to take on one of the most demanding use cases today self-driving cars. And as you’d expect, it’s leaps and bounds better than the previous generation of chips, ticking off plenty of “oh wow” boxes on the spec sheet: 9 billion transistors in an 8-core CPU, a new 512-core GPU, capable of 30 trillion operations per second while consuming just 30 watts.

But that wasn’t why Huang was so excited.

Nvidia didn’t just build a powerful system on a chip, it made it compact. The company’s previous generation of self-driving chip tech, the Drive PX 2, was a chunky piece of hardware, weighing several pounds and roughly the size of a bulky laptop. By contrast, the Nvidia Drive Xavier is so light that Huang said he could “barely feel it” during his keynote. Read more…

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What it’s like to ride in a self-driving Lyft

sudshr47 January 8, 2018

Riding in a self-driving Lyft car is way more boring than you’d expect. But that’s really the point.

The ride, which I took on the streets of Las Vegas at the outset of CES 2018, was only remarkable in how mundane it was. Turns, lane changes, braking for red lights, accelerating for green — it was all pretty much the same as if a human were doing the driving. Well, if it weren’t for the display on the dash showing a LiDAR-constructed view of the streets around us, and the robotic female voice that would occasionally chime in with a “lane change checking” or some other status update.

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Uber is going to make car sickness a thing of the past—especially in driverless cars

sudshr47 November 21, 2017

Uber is working to reduce the effect of car sickness, especially felt in self-driving cars, according to a new patent published earlier this year.
The patent introduces Uber’s “Sensory Stimulation System,” something we could see implemented in autono…

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Driverless shuttle in Las Vegas gets in fender bender within an hour

sudshr47 November 9, 2017

A driverless shuttle set free in downtown Las Vegas was involved in a minor accident less than an hour after it hit the streets, reported the local NBC affiliate KSNV. Not really the kind of publicity you want, or that self-driving cars need. Rea…

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Waymo’s autonomous cars don’t need humans in the driver’s seat anymore

sudshr47 November 7, 2017

More than eight years after it began, Waymo, the company spun out of Google X’s self-driving car project, believes its technology is ready to take to public roads as a fully self-driving car — without anyone in the driver’s seat.

Waymo’s fleet of autonomous vehicles is now prepared to drive on public roads without a safety operator, according to CEO John Krafcik, who announced the development onstage at the Web Summit in Lisbon.

The company also shared some details about the expansion of its pilot program in a blog post. Neither Krafcik nor the company’s reps shared exactly what has given the company the confidence to declare their vehicles “fully” self-driving, but it appears that Waymo has achieved Level 4 autonomy, which means the car can handle every aspect of the driving experience on its own without need for human intervention. Most other companies currently conducting self-driving tests are only at Level 3, a level that still requires a human operator for some (if not most) situations. Read more…

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