NVIDIA Drive is an artificial intelligence autonomous vehicle platform under NVIDIA Continental will develop a self-driving car system based on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform and hopes to bring the system to market by 2021.
The two companies will initially develop Level 2 autonomous driving capabilities, including 360 degree sensing, automatic lane change and traffic integration capabilities, and in the long term Continental will develop AI computer systems that will achieve Level 5 fully autonomous driving capabilities.
NVIDIA will supply Xavier chips, operating systems and software from the Drive suite, Continental will provide its safety certification technology as well as radar, lidar and camera products.
Continental is not NVIDIA's first self-driving partner and although it did not make a deal with Tesla, the company announced in 2017 an agreement with Audi, Toyota, Volvo, Volkswagen and even China's tech giant Baidu, Driving on the project cooperation.
NVIDIA's partnership has covered the entire industry, including many of the top OEMs and suppliers.