Nvidia has announced the Drive PX 2 at CES 2016. The Drive PX 2 is a new updated version of the Drive PX computer for self driving cars the company announced at last year’s CES.
The Drive PX 2 packs 2 Nvidia Tegra processors coupled with 2 graphic processors and holding 12 processing cores. The new beast is said to be equivalent to 150 MacBook Pros, all in one.
This complex work is facilitated by NVIDIA DriveWorks™, a suite of software tools, libraries and modules that accelerates development and testing of autonomous vehicles. DriveWorks enables sensor calibration, acquisition of surround data, synchronization, recording and then processing streams of sensor data through a complex pipeline of algorithms running on all of the DRIVE PX 2’s specialized and general-purpose processors. Software modules are included for every aspect of the autonomous driving pipeline, from object detection, classification and segmentation to map localization and path planning.
According to Nvidia, the PX2 is capable to “process the inputs of 12 video cameras, plus lidar, radar and ultrasonic sensors.” Volvo will be Nvidia’s first partner to use the Drive PX2.
Nvidia said that a well designed self driving car will have to pack super processing power to handle all the sensors, controls, and learning capabilities to be able to be autonomous.
