Silicon giant NVIDIA Corporation have revealed that their concerted efforts of developing self-driving cars has been aided by ‘The Real Driving Simulator’ itself, Gran Turismo.
When speaking at the ‘Automobiles, the Next Mobile Platform’ panel at this year’s DICE Summit, Sahin Kirtavit, Senior Director of Automotive Solutions at NVIDIA, predicts that the autonomous vehicles will hit the road “in the next few years.” Kirtavit goes on to explain that it was Gran Turismo’s game engine that helped aid in development of the self-driving simulations, while also contributing the visual fidelity necessary.
“We actually used the game engine two years ago to start our simulation effort and we figured out we needed more high fidelity graphics. The game engines have a lot that the simulator needs. I think game engines are extremely close to perfect simulators.”
Interestingly enough, it appears Kirtavit also estimates the rise of autonomous vehicles will be faster than many are anticipating or even expecting. Hands-off driving isn’t merely a temporary solution or an experience that requires monitoring: it’s no cruise control by any means. NVIDIA’s efforts are poised to offer a truly self-driving car, thanks in no small part to Gran Turismo. An offering that, once in effect, will allow more time for leisurely gaming.
“I think you’re going to see truly self driving cars—I’m not talking about cars that drive only thirty seconds and then gives control back to you—truly self-driving cars in the next few years on the road,” said Kirtavit. “And we are super excited that once the car drives itself, what you’re going to do is play games.”
NVIDIA has already had a hand in Volvo’s autonomous developments, as the Swedish car manufacturer intends to use the platform that will operate the self-driving car, the Drive PX 2. This platform is powered by the forthcoming next-generation Pascal GPU and 12 CPU cores capable of outputting 8 teraflops worth of raw processing power. The PX 2 platform is expected to make driving safer, according to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
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At least PD will finally have legal ramifications if the program isn’t up-to-date this time…
You can play video games on the way to work. Does it make coffees aswell, and does it blend?
will it have interior?
LOL. I’m not going anywhere near a self driving car that behaves like GT’s AI!! :D
Based on the engine sounds in GT, I’m not sure they even bother using microphones so I’d be surprised if it’s them.
Granted they’ve hired a new sound guy, but he’s probably just there to help make the coffee for the hundreds of men tasked only with modelling the filaments on the inside of a middle spec automatic 89 Miata’s glove box bulb.
Wrong article! I’ll get my coat :/
Self driving?
Yeah….it’s called B-Spec
I have a feeling that there is a “master” version of GT floating around at PD that is way beyond what they’ve been putting out due to hardware constraints. There work in the automotive field is just way too widespread and in-depth for a game that is considered “sim-cade”.
Well yeah cause the trailers and the car showcase things they’ve done in the past were danm impressive.
Ughhhhhhh
Anyone remember which sci fi movie hinted at future autonomous vehicles. Like how did they know uh-huh hurts my brain that still trying to figure it out. They ahave all this tech locked up ready to consumer released at the right time line. These elites know things we don’t. Like judge dredd movie was the one. Anyone think of another?
You’ll be taking a Johnny Cab on Mars for Total Recall – possibly most famous.
That, and I think Demolition Man had autonomous cars, probably many more films as I think about it.
Hey wraith you sexy beast ;)
Lol which crysis? Maybe 1 not 3 umm hmm? 0_0 like crysis game forever tests the latest gpus and none have harnessed enough might yet to run crysis well. Same is said for a few other space games. Well I mean the game still tests the mightiest consumer graphics cards. I’ll be happily proven wrong if I’m out of date with this information.
Honestly crysis is no benchmark the whole can it run crysis thing is more to do with that games terrible optimization. Crysis 2&3 both were doing things that weren’t possible back in the crysis1 days.
From news like this i understand how much professional and serious work PD do with GT…
Yes pd there for all……………. well except the fans haha
Two questions
1: Do you think with GT bein involved in the self driving cars stuff that they possibly used that to gather data to develop physics further?
2: What in the heck is a Teraflop?
1: A mutual exchange is possible, however, if anything at all it would benefit the game’s AI more than it would the physics engine itself.
2: A measurement of a computer’s speed. In this case think one trillion operations per second.
For reference, what’s the average for a laptop?
There’s no real general answer for that. It varies greatly depending on the hardware.
Yeah… But could it handle Crysis?
Wow.. 0_0