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Daimler-Bosch Self-Driving Collaboration Starts Pilot Testing in 2019, Says Nvidia CFO

"Pilot testing" will begin next year in Silicon Valley on the Daimler-Bosch “collaboration” using Nvidia’s Drive Pegasus artificial-intelligence “brain” for Level 4- and Level 5-scale autonomous vehicle “fleets,” said Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress on a Thursday earnings call…

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on quarterly results. Nvidia recently started shipping “development systems” for Drive Pegasus, an “AI supercomputer designed specifically for autonomous vehicles,” said Kress. It's capable of 320 trillion operations a second, so it can handle “diverse and redundant algorithms” in self-driving cars, she said.