Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, announced today that Toyota selected his company’s Drive PX autonomous driving platform to power self-driving cars.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announces during a keynote address that Toyota will use Nvidia’s self-driving car computer.
Apple and Google showed a preference for using Toyota company vehicles when developing self-driving car technologies, but Toyota itself remained relatively quiet on the topic. The Japanese automaker’s efforts gained more publicity today with the announcement that it would be using Nvidia’s Drive PX platform for its own self-driving car research.
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the partnership during his keynote speech at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, noting that Toyota would be using the technology with the intent for production “in the next few years.” That timing comes in line with other automakers intent on putting self-driving cars on the road in 2020 or 2021.
The Toyota-Nvidia partnership comes amid efforts around the globe to develop self-driving car technology, led not just by automakers, but also automotive equipment suppliers and technology companies.
