Beginning in 2025, Jaguar Land Rover and its subsidiaries will equip every newly launched vehicle with Nvidia’s assisted and automated driving solutions. New parking and driving assistance systems are planned, but also for interior monitoring and visualization.
Jaguar Land Rover uses the entire Nvidia stack
The lineup of cars is committed to the full Nvidia Drive suite, which is based on the Drive Hyperion reference platform, which Nvidia announced was ready for use in the eighth generation of its latest GTC in November. At the heart of this platform is Drive Orin, a system on a chip for autonomous driving that saw the light of day in 2019 and is due for delivery later this year. Orin is available in different performance classes, but the SoC almost always includes Cortex-A78 cores and an integrated Ampere graphics unit. Several Orin SoCs and additional onboard custom Ampere accelerators can also be used.
Drive AV and Drive IX . explained
Drive AV and Drive IX run on hardware, and both are a software solution for driving and interior monitoring as well as sensor visualization. For example, Drive AV includes deep neural networks for vehicle perception, measurement, planning, and control. Engine IX is the framework within which the behavior of the driver and passengers can be evaluated. Above all, this includes safety related aspects such as wakefulness or extreme sleep in order to provide the active assistance systems with appropriate information.
The human/machine interface (HMI) is also implemented via Drive IX, for example to control the infotainment system via voice and gestures or to interact with AI-powered voice assistants. In addition, Drive IX is responsible for visualizing the sensors in the car’s cockpit. Graphics related to the detected surroundings are displayed in the driver display to show the driver what the vehicle is seeing. When standing, the corresponding displays of the cameras can be output with their associated overlays on the displays.
The program determines the vehicle
Since software is such a large part of Nvidia Drive, the company calls it a software-specific platform that can see steady improvements over its lifetime. Jaguar Land Rover wants to run a self-developed data center with Nvidia DGX to train AI models and Drive Sim software based on the Nvidia Omniverse for physically accurate simulations in real time. This comprehensive validation and verification architecture aims to enable manufacturers to provide assistive and automated driving services over the life of the vehicle through OTA updates.
Jaguar Land Rover wants to develop a level 3 system
Specifically, a solution according to Level 2+ is initially planned, which allows the driver to permanently take his hands off the steering wheel and, as with Level 2, make the car control the throttle and brakes. However, the driver’s attention is still required, which can be monitored using Drive IX. Jaguar Land Rover wants to upgrade this system to Level 3, which will also allow the driver to “turn a blind eye”, allowing secondary activities while driving. The company has yet to announce the speeds and ways the systems will operate. With the Drive Pilot, Mercedes-Benz plans to launch within six months the Level 3 system, which is designed only for highway traffic jams of up to 60 km/h. In the USA, BMW offers Assisted Driving Plus in level 2+, which operates up to 64 km/h as long as the driver is looking ahead.
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