Nvidia has launched the the Drive PX 2, the world’s most powerful engine for in-car artificial intelligence.

The race to the fully-autonomous automobile is accelerating thanks to Nvidia’s new liquid-cooled super-GPU, which provides “unprecedented amounts of processing power”, equivalent to that of 150 Macbook Pros.

With 12 CPU cores, two next-generation Pascal GPUs and 8 terraflops of processing power, the Nvidia Drive PX 2 is a beast ready to undertake the challenge of learning to a car how to steer itself.

The supercomputer’s huge abilities allow it to quickly learn how to deal with everyday driving and its numerus factors, like unexpected road debris, other drivers and poor weather conditions among others.

Nvidia’s new creation can process the inputs of 12 video cameras, plus lidar, radar and ultrasonic sensors with the received data fused together to accurately detect and identify objects and determine the relative-to-the-world-around position of the car.

The company will also offer the DriveWorks software suite to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles and DIGITS, a deep learning platform, developed specifically for self-driving cars. It basically collects what the cars learn on the road and shares the data on a cloud network which can be accessed by other self-driving vehicles.

Volvo will be the first car maker to use the Drive PX 2 in their future models, with BMW, Audi, Mercedes and Ford already using DIGITS and likely to jump on board.

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