Nvidia Moves Self-Driving Car Tests from Road to Data Center (FB)
At the company's annual GTC Summit in San Jose, California, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced a two-server solution that simulates data generated by a self-driving car and trains a driving algorithm using that data. The promise is to move self-driving car testing off the public roads and into data centers before the technology is proven out. Besides the benefit of safety, virtualizing the road test makes it possible to train the algorithm much faster, the company said. The technology can simulate the billions of driving miles necessary to make self-driving cars a reality much faster than it would take to have physical cars drive them. Nvidia temporarily suspended tests of its own self-driving cars on public roads "to learn from the Uber incident," a company spokesman told Reuters.