Some time ago, we've seen the form of self-driving race cars
of Roborace, the cars are designed by famous designer Daniel Simon. Kinetic as
the company that will develop the cars hasn't revealed the detail features of
the cars, but surprisingly, another party doesn't mind to give a bit clue to
public.
What is the relation of this graphics card manufacturer with
Roborace? Apparently Nvidia gets a responsibility from Kinetic to design an
automatic steering system that will be used in Roborace.
Nvidia actually already has a similar system called Drive
PX, and at CES 2016, Nvidia announced the second version: Drive PX 2, which
would later be used in the Roborace competition.
Nvidia Driver PX 2 is actually a supercomputer that's armed
with powerful artificial intelligence (AI), it's packed in a casing that's no
bigger than a lunch box. This small box that will become the brain of all the
cars in the Roborace competition, of course, accompanied by series of sensors
sort of radar, lidar, camera, GPS and high definition mapping.
According to Nvidia, the more often these race cars are
used, the performance of Drive PX 2 will increase thanks to the deep learning
concept carried. But everything remains back into the hands of the teams that
will compete in Roborace, where they must optimize their automatic steering software
respectively.