Nvidia just launched a partnership with Paccar — maker of the Kenworth, Peterbilt and DAF truck brands — to collaborate on the development of an autonomous truck platform and artificial intelligence.
Though this is the company’s first public discussion of big rigs, it has been quietly inching in this direction for some time. Like many technology companies playing in connected and autonomous trucks, it’s become increasingly clear to insiders at Nvidia that trucks are likely to lead the revolution.
 
By 2018, it projects Level 4 capability.
The company has been developing this platform with a wide-range of automotive partners, including Tesla, Audi, Bosch and Mercedes-Benz. Some of these partnerships may have evolved to include trucks, Shapiro said. And earlier this year, Nvidia unveiled a partnership with ZF, a supplier to the trucking and automotive industries.
But the partnership with Paccar lets Nvidia talk more directly about what it sees happening in the trucking world.
Paccar said it has created a “proof-of-concept self-driving truck” with Level 4 capability built using Nvidia’s Drive PX platform. For its part, Nvidia has been eager to highlight the quickly developing opportunity given the 300 million trucks on the road driving 1.2 trillion miles annually.
Shapiro echoes what many others have noted: That the economic imperatives will likely lead to faster adoption and deployment of autonomous technologies for trucks as opposed to cars. The increased savings, efficiencies and safety promised by self-driving trucks, or even just trucks with greater artificial intelligence, mean fleet owners will be more willing to invest in the technology in the near term, he said.
 
https://www.trucks.com/20...iving-truck-ambitions/

I'm just worried about autonomous vehicles and predicting people who are crazy driving.  The Uber that crashed in Arizona was caused by a poor human driver.  And once the technology is more perfected, what happens, do we have lanes on freeways and roads dedicated just to autonomous vehicles?  Its all a slippery slope to me.

Uber wants to have flying cars by 2020 - maybe even self flying after that
 
if you don't believe me read the verge or wccftech
 
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/uber-really-seriously-promises-flying-cars-2020/
 
http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15369850/lilium-jet-flying-car-first-flight-vtol-aviation-munich
 
 
there even one that is a clear bubble with a ring around it (which houses the fans)
with 5-6 legs that pop down from the ring - looks like a flying saucer
 

 
 
bombardier design
 
http://www.realclearlife....flying-saucer-concept/
 
 

 
 
how do you handle the air traffic? - Cops in Flying cars?- ground base would be useless
imagine using one as a getaway car - and fly under the radar
 
 
Even Airbus has a working concept
 
 
 

 
There will be many bugs to work out for awhile, then over time it will get better.

EVGATech_MDecker

pcmaster00
I'm just worried about autonomous vehicles and predicting people who are crazy driving.  The Uber that crashed in Arizona was caused by a poor human driver.  And once the technology is more perfected, what happens, do we have lanes on freeways and roads dedicated just to autonomous vehicles?  Its all a slippery slope to me.

Hard to say what the best option is. I guess we should wait to see how the technology evolves. 

Don't get me wrong, I want to see the technology get there.  But can you imagine if it winds up being easier to do trucks because car drivers are more unpredictable and they wind up making lanes on the freeways just for these trucks.

A bad software driver or the system get hacked, let alone a computer trying to drive in the damn snow or heavy rain,
 
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