https://www.engadget.com/2016/01/04/nvidia-drive-px2/
The Tesla AutoPilot 2.0 updates will apparently include a new sensor suite that will enable "level 3 autonomous driving" and potentially level 4 fully autonomous driving in the near future.
Sources with knowledge of the Autopilot program told Elektrek that the new suite will keep the current front-facing radar and add more around the car, likely one in each corner. Additionally, the system will feature a new front-facing triple camera system for which we are told Tesla started installing new housing in the Model S production in early August.
Perhaps tellingly, the car company is also rumoured to be working with Nvidia towards development of a computing platform for self-driving cars.
The company’s next-generation visual computing platform for cars, NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2, is expected to become available this US fall. Again, it’s only a rumour at this point, but the timing is interesting.
Nvidia Drive PX 2, liquid cooled supercomputer in a lunchbox:
During GTC2016 NVIDIA announced first Drive PX 2 specifications. This deep-learning, autonomous driving oriented board will be equipped with two Tegra chips based on four ARM A57 cores and two Denver Cores each. Drive PX 2 also has two Pascal discrete GPUs, which have their own memory subsystem. Tegra SoC also have their own built-in iGPU based on Pascal, so technically Drive PX2 has 4 silicons based on so called 5th Generation GPU architecture.
While Tegra chips have their own 8GB LPDDR4 128-bit memory, two Pascal GPUs installed on the other side of the board will both feature 4GB GDDR5 memory. The bandwidth is set to 80 GB/s, which indicates either very low memory clock or short memory bus (around 128-bit).
So in other words, those two Pascal boards installed on the other side of the Drive PX 2 might be first mid-range Pascal solutions, which should also be available for notebooks soon.
Nvidia has manged to bag design wins with Volvo, Ford, Daimler and Audi only adds to the bullishness shown by the Automobile and TDS department of Nvidia. Yet Jen-Hsun Huang seems to have a clear favourite (note two more Tesla S's in his garage):
Update 20/10/2016: Autopilot 2.0 announced:
https://www.tesla.com/autopilot
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/tesla-motors-self-driving/ (Confirms upcoming Teslas will use Nvidia Drive PX 2)
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2016/10/20/tesla-motors-self-driving/ (Confirms upcoming Teslas will use Nvidia Drive PX 2)
Update 23/5/2017: Autopilot 2.0 with Nvidia PX2:
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