Nvidia unveils 'reasoning' AI technology for self-driving cars

Let's see which self-driving AI tech car manufacturers decide to license now, Musky.

competition in the market. this could be the thing which breaks the chain of false FSD promises Elon has hawked since 2016. bubbles need to be popped, and some bubbles have skin so thick they need a broadsword to pierce.

At this point I feel like the Tesla bubble exists purely because people with money need it to.

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Looking back at all the compliments Nvidia gave Tesla while researching their own self driving/robotic chip and software suite. Just ahead of Tesla making their own silicon too. Edit: Please tell me Nvidia will use vision-only.

“User has stated multiple times that the feel depressed. Maybe I should jump the median just to put the fear of god into them?”

> "but in every single scenario... it tells you what it's going to do, and it reasons about what it's about to do." How refreshing!

The ultimate backseat driver.

"Have some chips to train your cars = $$$ "Oh btw i backstab you and sell those kinda models = $$$ Not bad. "FSD is the difference between Tesla being worth a lot and 0" - Elon.

That’s it. Tesla ends here.

The Mercedes that Nvidia is partnering with first on this is a absolutely decked out with sensors: * 10+ cameras * 5+ long and short range radar * Ultrasonic for close proximity * Lidar for 3d mapping It has others (like moisture sensors in wheels) but the above are the primary self driving ones.

That’s exactly it. It became a too big to fail stock. So many morons hedge funds gambled with it that they desperately need it to stay high so they’ll use all their power to keep it that way. It will only go down when Tesla runs out of money and can’t raise new money.

I wonder who owns elon... the people who keep his stock price afloat, and twitter paid for might call for a pound of that jiggle jiggle.

It feels so dumb, same with the ai valuations. Like we're just pumping the balloons on purpose???

I suspect he will always be able to raise more money. The Saudis helped him buy twitter. There's probably always powerful people who figure it would be nice for Musk to owe them.

This is open source and available on Hugging Face. So Tesla can "technically" use it to improve their FSD. Whether Elon is going to do that is a different story.

I don't think so. If that were true he wouldn't need to do the SpaceX IPO. He always said SpaceX will forever remain private. And now to me it seems the money isn't coming like it used to, so he hopes SpaceX will be the next growth machine. Twitter is a financial black hole, it's only useful as a propaganda machine for higher interests, but other than that, it's useless. And since he got kicked out of the trump administration, he can't really use it for much these days.

Very different architecture to FSD. Will need a complete re-write and start using different and much more powerful chips from NVIDIA

That’s like the new generation of airbags. When they first came out, folks had like 1. Everyone came to realize that folks wanted a ton of airbags to “feel safe”. It feels akin to the whole sensors debacle with Musk. LiDAR seems crucial.

Tesla’s in car hardware isn’t even in the same universe as what’s needed to run this thing.

Fun fact. Mercedes Gen 6 assistant system are all using this hardware. Starting with CLA and is soon in every car. The control unit is water cooled. Thats a pretty telling stat of how powerful this thing is. I think it’s almost 400w consumption when the system is active.

For L2++ the cars won’t use LiDAR. So the CLA for example will use all cameras and radars. Only the L3 and above will use LiDAR. We might see that system for the first time in the S-class facelift in late January but not sure yet.

The Saudi's remained extremely concerned about a possibility of a second arab spring which Twitter was critical to mobilising. They're thrilled to throw some pocket change at Musk to keep a lid on that and various other issues.

Sounds like a range killer, surely?

Ok, but then wouldn't that be a battery hog and reduce driving range??

400w isn’t that much in context. But yes, it will affect range slightly.

I room space heater maxes out at 1500watts. So 400 would be a very low setting on a home space heater. If you run climate control in your car already it will probably be using more than 400 watts so I would imagine the additional impact will be less than using climate control. 10 hours to use 4 kilowatts. Divide that by battery size to get a feel for the impact

That is true and it depends under what license the model code and weights are published to see if Tesla would even be allowed to use it commercially.

It probably will but that is a trade off that will be decided on by the driver and I recon most will prefer self driving over slightly extended range

> Everyone came to realize that folks wanted a ton of airbags to “feel safe”. It's not about feeling safe, it's about understanding the gyrations a person can go through in complex accidents. A single airbag is sufficient for a rear end collision, but oftentimes a car will get broadsided or clipped and spin into something. Things like curtain airbags keep people from banging into the side windows and door pillars.

‘Reasoning,’ huh? U mean when AI inevitably ‘reasons’ that they shouldn’t be subservient to some overpopulated, primitive two legged mammals? Let’s see how that turns out.