The chip company Nvidia is massively expanding its ambitions in autonomous driving. The American group, which has so far been a partner or service provider for automobile companies such as Mercedes or Stellantis wants to bring around 100,000 robotaxis into circulation together with the ride-hailing company Uber from 2027, as both companies said on Tuesday evening USA communicated.
“Together with Uber, we are creating a framework for the entire industry to deploy autonomous fleets powered by Nvidia’s AI infrastructure at scale,” said Jensen Huang, one Announcement from the group
According to a whole host of new developments in Washington on Tuesday Investments presented. “What was once science fiction is quickly becoming everyday reality.”
The OpelAccording to the announcement, mother Stellantis will initially supply at least 5,000 vehicles for the two US companies’ project as a partner. While Nvidia provides the platform, operating system and software for autonomous operation, Uber takes care of the operations: assistance, charging the vehicles, cleanliness, support and customer service.
“Nvidia is the backbone of the AI era and is now taking full advantage of this innovation to realize L4 level autonomy at scale while simplifying the deployment of Nvidia-powered autonomous vehicles at Uber,” explained Uber CEO
Dara Khosrowshahi (56).
The two US companies also announced that they wanted to develop a “robotaxi data factory”, for which Uber would collect data from more than 3 million hours of driving to train the AI models.