Nvidia Creates Digital Nervous System for Jaguar Land Rover
- By CDOTrends editors
- February 23, 2022
Chip producer and robotics solutions provider Nvidia is partnering with iconic carmaker Jaguar Land Rover. It will see Nvidia’s Driver Hyperion 8 platform installed in vehicles from 2025.
The platform seeks to serve as what Nvidia calls the “central nervous system of the vehicle,” and the JLR vehicles will be developed with Nvidia from end to end, bringing automated driving features to the next generation of vehicles.
These solutions will pan across "active safety, automated driving and parking systems, as well as driver assistance systems" on the premium luxury cars. In addition, Nvidia's platform will also enable AI features inside the vehicle, including "driver and occupant monitoring and advanced visualization."
The Nvidia Drive Hyperion 8 platform comprises various components: DRIVE Orin, DRIVE AV, and DRIVE IX software stack. While the first will focus on safety and automated driving systems, DRIVE AV will enable driver assistance systems, and DRIVE IX will bring in-vehicle AI-controlled features.
The software-defined features on future Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will come as part of JLR's Reimagine strategy designed to enhance the user experience of these vehicles.
Nvidia says that these vehicles will be built on a "unified computer architecture," enabling the AI features as per ongoing customer value and new business models. Nvidia says the centralized compute and over-the-air upgrades will also help with better supply chain management.
The development of a vehicle based on Nvidia's platform will begin in the company's data center.
"Engineers from both companies will work together to train, test, and validate new automated driving features using NVIDIA data center solutions," the company notes in its blog.
Once the features are tested, Jaguar Land Rover will deploy this full-stack solution on Nvidia Drive Hyperion. Drive Hyperion includes "the safety, security systems, networking and surrounding sensors used for autonomous driving, parking, and intelligent cockpit applications," the blog says.
These platforms will also be improved continuously and "supported throughout their lifetimes" by software and AI engineers at NVIDIA and Jaguar Land Rover.
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