Nvidia made its name with graphics cards for PCs – but in the last few years the company has become an important partner for the automotive industry. Porsche Engineering finds out the key to Nvidia’s success, why it is a leader in the AI field and its vision for the future.
Drivers who are guided by a navigations system will be familiar with a problem: if the lanes of a road are close together, the system cannot recognise which lane the vehicle is in. GPS is not precise enough for this – it can only determine the position to within two to 10 metres – but Porsche Engineering is working on a system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to calculate a more precise position from GPS data. “This makes it possible, for example, to identify the ideal line on a race track,” says Dr. Joachim Schaper, Senior Manager of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data at Porsche Engineering. The necessary calculations can be performed in the vehicle itself, in a compact computer equipped with graphics processing units (GPUs). “This brings AI functionality to the vehicle,” says Schaper.
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