Nvidia (NVDA) and Uber (UBER) on Tuesday revealed that they’re working to put together what they say will be the world’s largest network of Level 4-ready autonomous cars.
The duo will build out 100,000 vehicles beginning in 2027 using Nvidia’s Drive AGX Hyperion 10 platform and Drive AV software.
Hyperion 10, Nvidia says, is a reference production computer and collection of sensors designed to enable Level 4 autonomy. Autonomous vehicles are measured in levels ranging from 0, which amounts to a standard dumb car, to Level 5 for fully self-driving cars.
Level 4 cars can operate on their own in certain settings, but drivers can still take over.
“Nvidia is the backbone of the AI era, and is now fully harnessing that innovation to unleash [Level 4] autonomy at enormous scale, while making it easier for Nvidia-empowered AVs to be deployed by Uber,” Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement.
The companies have also lined up a number of partners to help develop the vehicles. Stellantis is working on AV platforms using Nvidia’s technology and connecting to Uber’s mobility ecosystem.
Lucid and Mercedes-Benz are also building Level 4 capabilities using Nvidia’s hardware and software.
On the trucking side, Nvidia says Aurora, Volvo, and others are putting together Level 4 trucks with an Nvidia Drive.
The company’s Nvidia Drive Hyperion AGX 10 runs on two AGX Thor systems-on-a-chip and DriveOS, which includes 14 cameras, nine radars, LiDAR, and 12 ultrasonic sensors.
The autonomous taxi business is heating up, with Tesla launching a test version of its Robotaxi and Google expanding its Waymo testing to New York City, albeit with a safety driver involved.
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