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Audi and Nvidia Working on Fully Autonomous Car for 2020 Rollout
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This ^^^.
Couldn't agree more.
Tesla looks like a Mazda/Toyota generic Japanese/Korean design, enlarged. Nothing alike an Audi design -- outside or inside.
For a $100K+ automobile, vying into "luxury class", they could/should have gone to Pininfarina to get a touch of class, which is sorely missing. But had some random ex-Mazda designer set their design language.
Relative to Audi, I love their cars. My family owns two. And I love working on them myself.
From keynote : " 10:50PM EST - 'Let's make sure none of our kids ever have to learn to drive' "
Excuse me? You wanna say this is the direction they wanna take humanity in?
I'd rather not thank you. Tesla's Autopilot in its current state is about as far as it should go. Driver assisting, not driver replacing.
EXACTLY. If I was tired or exhausted from a long day on the road I'd rather stop at a hotel and get a nights sleep than relying on a fallible electronic system to drive the vehicle to my destination for me.
Which is exactly why Apple is getting no where. And then insults everyone by moaning they have to abide by more stringent road safety laws! If Apple was more agreeable with its contracts and terms they could have got somewhere by now.
And I'm pretty sure znvidoa isn't giving Audi anything for free and is making a lucrative profit from it all.
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That is a moot point though as Audi drivers like to drive 1 inch from your back end regardless if they have the Audi cockpit or not....!
The People know what they want/need better than some Government.
The free market will figure it out as development will cease on things that do not sell or provide utility.
I would like to buy one of these
Audi and Nvidia have announced they are working together to bring a fully self-driving car to the consumer market by the year 2020.
The announcement came on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, as the two companies outlined their vision for a fully autonomous vehicle. German automaker Audi hopes to be one of the first automakers to achieve the feat, and is banking on U.S. graphics chipmaker Nvidia's artificial intelligence car computing platform, which uses deep learning to negotiate complex real-road conditions.
To offer a taste of the results of their collaboration, Audi has been demoing its Q7 Piloted Driving Concept, which is fitted with Nvidia's Drive PX 2 processor. The companies claim that after four days of "training", equipped vehicles are able to drive themselves over a complex road course, thanks to the PX 2 chip's ability to learn on the fly without recourse to pre-mapped routes.
Audi's Q7 Piloted Driving Concept.
Audi and Nvidia have been working together for almost a decade, but the announcement at this year's CES is an indication of just how far the collaboration has come. Originally the partnership was limited to using Nvidia's graphics processors in Audi's virtual cockpit and navigation systems, but ambitions have since grown, and Audi said it will begin expanding its testing of the highly automated, artificial intelligence-equipped vehicles on public roads in California and select states in 2018.
For Nvidia's part, the traditionally GPU-focused company has been working on autonomous vehicle systems for several years now and has rolled out development platforms and agreed partnerships with over 80 automakers and suppliers to realize its self-driving goals. In September the company introduced Xavier, a complete AI system on a chip for self-driving cars that's designed to meet international functional safety standards for in-car electronics.
Apple is thought to have refocused its car project recently. The company has shelved plans to build an electric car for now, and is instead working to build a self-driving software platform for use in vehicles made by established automakers. In December of last year, Apple confirmed its interest in the autonomous car market, in a letter to federal regulators urging them to ensure fair competition and equal rights for "new entrants" in the industry.
Article Link: Audi and Nvidia Working on Fully Autonomous Car for 2020 Rollout
I understand your skepticism. But my experiences are the counter-opposite to what you describe.
I own an Audi TT (Generation 1) 2005 V6, 3.2L, 250hp.
Note that engine is normally aspirated, not turbo-charged. With 56,000 miles.
I take care myself of all critical fluid and filter changes (not just oil!), not the dealer. And the car drives beautifully. I only take it to the dealer for work that requires one-time, specialized tools. And could not be happier.
On the "Check Engine" light, that is a catch-all alarm, that covers almost all critical elements of the engine, from combustion, cooling, to emissions control. Without reading the computer codes, which is trivial and can be done by you in few minutes, one cannot tell of the source of the malfunction(s).
Sorry to hear about your VW experiences. I cannot speak for the assertion you make that VW is equivalent to Audi. Maybe so, but that is not my experience (I buy Audi OEM parts not VW OEM parts, except for lubricants.) Nonetheless, there is sharing among certain components.
My take is that most cars that were manufactured on the last decade, do require careful maintenance protocols. If you adhere to those protocols, chances are that you will be well served -- that is my experience.
All these top end car manufactures built their business on great divers cars and now they don't want us to drive at all. I'm not interested in this rubbish and just think of all the driving jobs like truck drivers who will not be required. Their will be no point in having children as their will be no jobs for them.
From keynote : " 10:50PM EST - 'Let's make sure none of our kids ever have to learn to drive' "
Excuse me? You wanna say this is the direction they wanna take humanity in?
I'd rather not thank you. Tesla's Autopilot in its current state is about as far as it should go. Driver assisting, not driver replacing.
Sounds a bit like the argument "Guns don't kill people, people do". How well has that worked out so far?
I wish there was a way to bet in this forum; I'm entirely with theluggage on this one. I'd bet that seeing fully autonomous cars (SAE level 5) are *at least* 10 years away, not 3.
Every time I see an indication to the contrary, I look closer, and the claim falls apart. Take this Audi article, for example. The headline claims Audi will have fully automated cars in 2020. But as I pointed out earlier, that claim is conspicuously absent in the body of the article itself. (Headline writers tend to exaggerate. The body only claims "highly automated". There's a big difference.)
Remember the 80/20 rule; what feels like the last 20% of a project will take 80% of the effort. AI in particular is notorious for taking more effort than people think at first. And are we close to that last 20%? A year ago it was news that Ford was beginning to test their autonomous cars in snow, while Google was getting around to testing their cars in rain. (Rain!)
Yeah, she hasn't had the opportunity to use it though. It is missing the guide lines, which may cause an issue for her.
I think we're going to have to agree to agree on the technicality of SAE level 5. It may actually be a decade or more before production vehicles with full autonomy appear on our roads. But the day that happens will be nearly indistinguishable from the day that comes before it. Tesla, Audi, Google, and others (maybe even Apple) aren't going to wait that long to get their technology on the streets. By the time drivers are able to get into a car with no steering wheel, or with one that only comes out when a driver wants to control the vehicle (for fun or whatever), many drivers will already be accustomed to cars that do almost all of the driving for them.
I remember the day the last smallpox victim died. Well, I don't remember the actual day, but I remember it being a footnote on a news program. Humans had successfully eradicated a disease from the world's population. Momentous, but on the other hand I had never seen smallpox or had it affect me, other than the inoculation I received. The last case in the US was more than a decade and a half before my birth.
They've at it for quite awhile now. Think about it. All of the computational power needed by an autonomous to make those types of calculations on the fly is right up NVIDIA's alley. I have a friend whose father works for NVIDIA and told me a little bit about what they working on almost 5 years ago. I was shocked at first too.
[doublepost=1483676428][/doublepost]It really doesn't. It only makes sense that a company known for pushing graphical power to its limits would be helping in the autonomous car market. Apple really has no business getting into it and I think the fact that they had distracted themselves with attempting it has made some of their other products suffer. Apple has been seriously losing its focus over the last few years.
Why on Earth should all cars on a road need to "talk" to each other to enable autonomous driving? I don't see human drivers talk to each other while driving. You need advanced software that can make sense of all the sensor information, but I doubt that you need some kind of wireless information exchange between cars (that could be hacked and manipulated and just poses a different new kind of unnecessary risk).
And yes, I'd love to sleep in my own car while doing my weekly 600km commute to Munich. I can't sleep while I'm on the train, but maybe I could sleep in a more private surrounding. AUDI is a car manufacturer that I trust -- they wouldn't put something on the market that is not up to the task. When they start selling this technology, it will work and it will be safe to use.
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Firstly, there will always be a manual override for years to come. And secondly, I'd rather have an AI making such decisions than a drunken driver. The streets WILL be a much safer place once idiots are no longer aloud to steer cars. Imagine that all self-driving cars would perfectly react in time to a child running across the street -- without panicking, without hesitation, without reduced reaction time, making the most use of their "visual" capabilities and not being distracted by some irrelevant advertisement or whatever else they just passed by.
It's not all "I, Robot" and Will Smith playing the traumatized cop who couldn't get over the fact that the machine saved him instead of the drowning kid.
If you're worried about these things, then maybe, just maybe, you should be more worried about your government sanctioning fully automated drones whose sole purpose is to actively make decisions about killing people -- WITHOUT ANY HUMAN INTERACTION.
It's amazing that people have so many doubts about the feasibility of self-driving cars and come up with ethical aspects while the military application of self-flying and autonomously killing drones is already much more advanced. But, yeah. For all we know, Apple isn't in the drone market, so there is not that much news coverage...
I only want to say that I am an Audi fan. Here in winter wonderland quattro is nice. Their styling is updated but understated. Their quiet interiors are fantastic. Their tech, however dated, gets the job done after a learning curve. Their non-diesel engines are outstanding. Their quality is improving. I can never afford one. But a self-driving Audi sounds cool and sort of gaming-like fun.