Toyota teams up with Nvidia to create its autonomous driving technology

While many manufacturers have been preparing their self-driving car proposals and announcing the innovations they have in development, Toyota has kept quiet about it. But that has been until now, because the world’s second-largest carmaker has just announced that it has joined forces with Nvidia, one of the most important technology brands on the market. The goal is to create its own technology that will help the manufacturer develop its own autonomous driving systems.

The system that Toyota will use will have hardware and software of exclusive design, resulting from the collaboration of both brands. So, from now on, Toyota will use the Artificial Intelligence devices that Nvidia already has ready for use, although the brand will develop new systems to improve the results obtained so far and create new ways to overcome the problems facing autonomous driving.

To begin with, the announcement indicates that Toyota will apply the Nvidia Drive PX computing platform in its future autonomous models. This Nvidia hardware allows the use of an artificial intelligence learning system capable of developing solutions to anticipate all the circumstances that may occur on the road.

The platform uses a Xavier processor which, although it is very small, small enough to fit in one hand, can perform a large number of operations to keep learning and improving its autonomous driving capability. Its function will be to receive all the data obtained by the various sensors installed in the car, such as radar, lidar and cameras, interpret them and react accordingly, avoiding obstacles and maintaining speed and direction without problems.

Apparently, Toyota has been working on this type of automated process for over 20 years, seeking to remove accidents from the driving equation and trying to reduce road traffic deaths to zero. Its collaboration with Nvidia will make Toyota’s autonomous driving projects more efficient and allow them to reach the market much sooner than we had planned.

Source | Carscoops