Opinion
Shapiro: Highway autonomous driving is a solved problem
“So the basics are easy when you can drive down the freeway. Cars are all going in the same direction. There's no pedestrians. There's good lane markings. That's really a solved problem.”
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Shapiro: Every Mercedes will be built on NVIDIA DRIVE platform
“So every Mercedes will be built on NVIDIA drive with the software that we've developed and rolled out by NVIDIA. So it starts with that C-class vehicle, and then we'll go through their entire line over time.”
Insight
Shapiro: Autonomous vehicle safety requires combining cameras, radar, and lidar
“This diversity and redundancy is really how you get higher levels of safety. So cameras are great, but they don't work in all conditions, and so when you combine radar, when you combine lidar, you have the strengths of many different types of sensors, and they…”
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Shapiro: Tesla's camera-only system can probably reach full autonomy eventually
“Whereas I do have a Tesla and it's quite remarkable being camera based, but every once in a while, I still need to jump in and grab the wheel. So it's not there yet. Can it get there? I think it probably can eventually, but it's not there today.”
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Shapiro: NVIDIA is the only company offering a three-computer AV stack
“So NVIDIA is the only company that has these three computers, and it's really this whole life cycle of developing, testing, and deploying the software, and really it's a continuous flywheel.”
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Shapiro: NVIDIA operates with dynamic virtual teams rather than rigid org charts
“Kind of come second, and in fact, the notion of the group is kind of dynamic, and we really don't have much of an org chart in the company. Jensen says the mission is the boss, and so we have these virtual teams. There's a lot of cross-functional work that goe…”
Disclosure
Shapiro: NVIDIA's in-car AI avatars will train exclusively on vehicle data
“So as we think about having some kind of an avatar in the car, that's your concierge, we're going to train it specifically on everything to do with that car brand, that car model. And the kinds of things that you would want to do in the car. So it's not necess…”
Disclosure
Mercedes, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volvo are integrating NVIDIA driving tech
“We're bringing it into vehicles like Mercedes, like Jaguar, Land Rover vehicles, like Volvos, and a number of other brands all over the world are integrating NVIDIA technology to enable much safer driving on the streets before we get to a fully autonomous.”
Disclosure
Shapiro: NVIDIA uses LLMs to turn accident reports into AV simulations
“The other thing that we can do is we can take accident reports and now using these large language models, we can input these accident reports and be able to create scenarios from a text input explaining what happened or if there's a map or something like that.”
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Shapiro: NVIDIA can train regional LLMs on localized traffic laws
“The technology is there so that we can train it on what are the laws of a particular region? I mean, the signs, the light signals, the lane markings in different regions of the country or around the world. Differ quite a bit, and so basically creating these la…”
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Shapiro: Mercedes-Benz and BMW use NVIDIA digital twins to simulate factories before construction
“Companies like Mercedes-Benz, like BMW are working with our teams
to develop this factory as a digital twin first, so it's a full simulation of the entire factory, all the robots, the workers, the assembly lines, the trucks pulling up, the, you know, logistic…”
