CES -- NVIDIA today announced the
world’s first commercially available Level 2+ automated driving
system, NVIDIA DRIVE™ AutoPilot, which integrates multiple
breakthrough AI technologies that will enable supervised
self-driving vehicles to go into production by next year.
At CES 2019, leading automotive suppliers Continental and ZF
announced Level 2+ self-driving solutions based on NVIDIA DRIVE,
with production starting in 2020.
As a Level 2+ self-driving solution, NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot
uniquely provides both world-class autonomous driving perception
and a cockpit rich in AI capabilities. Vehicle manufacturers can
use it to bring to market sophisticated automated driving features
— as well as intelligent cockpit assistance and visualization
capabilities — that far surpass today’s ADAS offerings in
performance, functionality and road safety.
“A full-featured, Level 2+ system requires significantly more
computational horsepower and sophisticated software than what is on
the road today,” said Rob Csongor, vice president of Autonomous
Machines at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot provides these, making
it possible for carmakers to quickly deploy advanced autonomous
solutions by 2020 and to scale this solution to higher levels of
autonomy faster.”
DRIVE AutoPilot integrates for the first time high-performance
NVIDIA Xavier™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors and the latest
NVIDIA DRIVE Software to process many deep neural networks (DNNs)
for perception as well as complete surround camera sensor data from
outside the vehicle and inside the cabin. This combination enables
full self-driving autopilot capabilities, including highway merge,
lane change, lane splits and personal mapping. Inside the cabin,
features include driver monitoring, AI copilot capabilities and
advanced in-cabin visualization of the vehicle’s computer vision
system.
DRIVE AutoPilot is part of the open, flexible NVIDIA DRIVE
platform, which is being used by hundreds of companies worldwide to
build autonomous vehicle solutions that increase road safety while
reducing driver fatigue and stress on long drives or in stop-and-go
traffic. The new Level 2+ system complements the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX
Pegasus system that provides Level 5 capabilities for
robotaxis.
DRIVE AutoPilot addresses the limitations of existing Level 2
ADAS systems, which a recent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
study showed offer inconsistent vehicle detections and poor ability
to stay within lanes on curvy or hilly roads, resulting in a high
occurrence of system disengagements where the driver abruptly had
to take control.(1)
“Lane keeping and adaptive cruise control systems on the market
today are simply not living up to the expectations of consumers,”
said Dominique Bonte, vice president of Automotive Research at ABI
Research. “The high-performance AI solutions from NVIDIA will
deliver more effective active safety and more reliable automated
driving systems in the near future.”
Xavier SoC: Processing at 30 Teraops a
SecondCentral to NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot is the Xavier SoC,
which delivers 30 trillion operations per second of processing
capability. Architected for safety, Xavier has been designed for
redundancy and diversity, with six types of processors and 9
billion transistors that enable it to process vast amounts of data
in real time.
Xavier is the world’s first automotive-grade processor for
autonomous driving and is in production today. Global safety
experts have assessed its architecture and development process as
suitable for building a safe product.
AI Inside and Out The DRIVE AutoPilot software
stack integrates DRIVE AV software for handling challenges outside
the vehicle, as well as DRIVE IX software for tasks inside the
car.
DRIVE AV uses surround sensors for full, 360-degree perception
and features highly accurate localization and path-planning
capabilities. These enable supervised self-driving on the highway,
from on-ramp to off-ramp. Going beyond basic adaptive cruise
control, lane keeping and automatic emergency braking, its surround
perception capabilities handle situations where lanes split or
merge, and safely perform lane changes.
DRIVE AV also includes a diverse and redundant set of advanced
DNN technologies that enable the vehicle to perceive a wide range
of objects and driving situations, including DriveNet, SignNet,
LaneNet, OpenRoadNet and WaitNet. This sophisticated AI software
understands where other vehicles are, reads lane markings, detects
pedestrians and cyclists, distinguishes different types of lights
and their colors, recognizes traffic signs and understands complex
scenes.
In addition to providing precise localization to the world’s HD
maps for vehicle positioning on the road, DRIVE AutoPilot offers a
new personal mapping feature called “My Route,” which remembers
where you have driven and can create a self-driving route even if
no HD map is available.
Within the vehicle, DRIVE IX intelligent experience software
enables occupant monitoring to detect distracted or drowsy drivers
and provide alerts, or take corrective action if needed. It is also
used to create intelligent user experiences, including the new
ability for augmented reality. Displaying a visualization of the
surrounding environment sensed by the vehicle, as well as planned
route, instills trust in the system.
For next-generation user experiences in the vehicle, the AI
capabilities of DRIVE IX can also be used to accelerate natural
language processing, gaze tracking or gesture recognition.
Adopted by Industry LeadersContinental is
developing a scalable and affordable automated driving architecture
that will bridge from Premium Assist to future automated
functionalities. It uses Continental’s portfolio of radar, lidar,
camera and Automated Driving Control Unit technology powered by
NVIDIA DRIVE.
“Today’s driving experience with advanced driver assistance
systems will be brought to the next level, creating a seamless
transition from assisted to automated driving and defining a new
standard,” said Karl Haupt, head of the Advanced Driver Assistance
Systems business unit at Continental. “Driving will become an
active journey, keeping the driver responsible but reducing the
driving task to supervision and relaxation.”
ZF ProAI offers a unique modular hardware concept and open
software architecture, utilizing NVIDIA DRIVE Xavier processors and
DRIVE Software.
“Our aim is to provide the widest possible range of functions in
the field of autonomous driving,” explained Torsten Gollewski, head
of ZF Advanced Engineering and general manager of ZF Zukunft
Ventures GmbH. “The ZF ProAI product family offers an open platform
for the customized integration of software algorithms – covering
conventional functions as well as AI algorithms and software
running on NVIDIA DRIVE.”
NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot will be demonstrated at CES in NVIDIA
booth 6306 in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center
from Jan. 8-11.
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(1) “IIHS examines driver assistance features
in road, track tests,” IIHS, Aug. 7, 2018.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot being the
world’s first commercially available Level 2+ automated driving
system, and it integrating multiple breakthrough technologies that
will enable self-driving vehicles to go into production by next
year; Continental and ZF announcing self-driving solutions based on
NVIDIA DRIVE, with production starting in 2020; the performance,
benefits and abilities of NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot, including it
providing world-class driving perception and AI capabilities,
vehicle manufacturers’ ability to use it to bring to market
sophisticated automated driving features, intelligent cockpit
assistance and visualization capabilities that surpass today’s ADAS
offerings, it integrating NVIDIA Xavier and the latest software to
process DNNs and the features enabled by this technology both
outside and inside vehicles, and it addressing the limitations of
existing Level 2 ADAS systems; Level 2+ systems requiring more
computational horsepower and sophisticated software than what is on
the road today, and NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot providing these, making
it possible for carmakers to quickly deploy advanced autonomous
solutions by 2020 and to scale this solution to higher levels of
autonomy faster; NVIDIA DRIVE being used by companies to build
autonomous vehicle solutions that increase road safety, while
reducing driver fatigue and stress on long drives or in traffic;
the Level 2+ system complementing the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus
system; vehicle systems on the market today not living up to the
expectations of consumers; AI solutions from NVIDIA delivering more
effective active safety and more reliable automated driving systems
in the near future; the performance and abilities Xavier SoC and
its use in NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot; global safety experts assessing
Xavier as suitable for building a safe product; DRIVE AutoPilot
integrating DRIVE AV and DRIVE IX for handling challenges inside
and outside the car and their benefits, abilities and performance,
including localization and My Route, path-planning capabilities,
self-driving on the highway, ability to handle lane changes and
variations, and enabling perceptive technologies and capabilities,
and use to monitor drivers, provide alerts, correct drivers, create
intelligent user experiences, display visualization of surrounding
environment and plan routes; DRIVE IX ability to be used to
accelerate natural language processing, gaze tracking or gesture
recognition; Continental developing a driving architecture to
bridge from Premium Assist to future automated functionalities
using its portfolio and NVIDIA DRIVE; today’s driving experience
being brought to the next level and it creating a transition from
assisted to automated driving and defining a new standard; driving
becoming an active journey, keeping the driver responsible but
reducing the driving task to supervision and relaxation; and the
demonstration of NVIDIA DRIVE AutoPilot are forward-looking
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cause results to be materially different than expectations.
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