{"id":17629,"date":"2020-06-23T13:37:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/?p=17629"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:26:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:26:42","slug":"mercedes-benz-and-nvidia-cooperate-on-autonomous-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/mercedes-benz-and-nvidia-cooperate-on-autonomous-fleet.html","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA Cooperate on Autonomous Fleet Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just a few days since Mercedes and BMW amicably ended their autonomous driving partnership, comes this news… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA plan to cooperate to create a revolutionary in-vehicle computing system and AI computing infrastructure. Starting in 2024, this will be rolled out across the fleet of next-generation Mercedes-Benz vehicles, enabling them with upgradable automated driving functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working\ntogether, the companies plan to develop the most sophisticated and advanced\ncomputing architecture ever deployed in an automobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new software-defined architecture will be built on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform<\/a> and will be standard in Mercedes-Benz\u2019s next-generation fleet, enabling state-of-the-art automated driving functionalities. A primary feature will be the ability to automate driving of regular routes from address to address. In addition, there will be numerous future safety and convenience applications. Customers will be able to purchase and add capabilities, software applications and subscription services through over-the-air software updates during the life of the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Jensen Huang,\nfounder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: \u201cWe are excited to work with Mercedes-Benz.\nIt\u2019s the perfect partner for us given its long record of innovation and our\nstrong technical relationship. It\u2019s clear from our extensive discussions with\nOla and his team that we share a common vision of the automobile of the future.\nTogether, we\u2019re going to revolutionize the car ownership experience, making the\nvehicle software programmable and continuously upgradeable via over-the-air\nupdates. Every future Mercedes-Benz with the NVIDIA DRIVE system will come with\na team of expert AI and software engineers continuously developing, refining\nand enhancing the car over its lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Profile<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Ola K\u00e4llenius,\nChairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz AG,\nsaid: \u201cWe are delighted to be able to extend our cooperation with NVIDIA.\nJensen and I know one another well and we have spent a great deal of time\ntalking about the goals and potential of next-generation vehicle computing\narchitecture. This new platform will become an efficient, centralized and\nsoftware-defined system in our future Mercedes-Benz vehicles. NVIDIA\u2019s AI\ncomputing architecture will help us streamline our journey towards autonomous\ndriving. These new capabilities and upgrades will be downloaded from the cloud,\nimproving safety, increasing value and extending the joy of ownership for all\nMercedes-Benz customers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A New\nComputing Architecture <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Automated driving functions in future Mercedes-Benz cars will be powered by the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE platform. The computer system-on-a-chip, called NVIDIA Orin, is based on the recently announced NVIDIA Ampere supercomputing architecture<\/a>. The NVIDIA DRIVE platform includes a full system software stack designed for automated driving AI applications. NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz will jointly develop the AI and automated vehicle applications that include SAE level 2 and 3, as well as automated parking functions (up to level 4).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new system\u2019s capabilities will be harnessed with a total focus on safety. As the technology and regulatory framework develop, it will be possible for every car to be updated over the air to enable new automated driving functions. Convenience as well as other safety features will also be available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To develop the\nnew models, both companies will be utilizing NVIDIA DRIVE Infrastructure\nsolutions to enable data-driven development and deep neural network development\nto handle the requirements of the regions and operational domains where the\ncars will be available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a few days since Mercedes and BMW amicably ended their autonomous driving partnership, comes this news… Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA plan to cooperate to create a revolutionary in-vehicle computing system and AI computing infrastructure. Starting in 2024, this will be rolled out across the fleet of next-generation Mercedes-Benz vehicles, enabling them with upgradable automated driving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":17630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[2630,2897,2896,2507],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17634,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17629\/revisions\/17634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}