Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahead and coming in 2017”

Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe... by revelation on Saturday November 12, 2016 @01:42PM (#12939388)

Wait, who cares about the power consumption in a car?

perf/W is a useful number if you are trying to stack a data center full of these things and electricity (incl for cooling) is essentially your only cost. But if a car is using 300Wh/mile or, in an ICE, generating 100kW in excess heat it is an entirely pointless metric.

(Just for clarification: no one is using the Drive PX2 in a data center. Just look at these connectors:

http://images.anandtech.com/doci/9903/NVIDIA_DRIVE-PX-2.jpg )

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Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe... by varelse on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:10PM (#12939584)

Informal anecdotal knowledge: GM wants 10-20 watts for the entire self-driving system, sensors and all.

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Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe... by revelation on Saturday November 12, 2016 @02:15PM (#12939621)

Well, they are going to be disappointed. We all want a small black box we can stuff under the steering wheel and have it draw zero power so we don't need to cool it or pay for the extra thick cabling.

But in the meantime, where we haven't actually solved the problem even when the trunk is full of racks with high-end boxes, it seems silly to mandate that, in the classic GM "compromises safety" sense.

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Re:Nvidia on new self-driving system: “basically 5 years ahe... by rasz_pl on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:53AM (#12942600)

GM isnt exactly the shining beacon you should follow and listen, they did get scammed out of $1B on Cruise after all.

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