STOCKHOLM, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Autoliv and Volvo Car Corporation, with Zenuity, a
newly-formed automotive software development joint venture equally
owned by Autoliv and Volvo Car Corporation, will work together with
NVIDIA to develop next generation self-driving car technologies,
with a target to bring level 4 autonomous driving to the market by
2021.
As part of the agreement Autoliv, Volvo, and Zenuity will
use NVIDIA's AI car computing platform as the foundation for their
own advanced software development, bringing together two of the
most respected companies in automotive safety with one of the
world's leading artificial intelligence companies.
Jan Carlson, Chairman,
President and CEO of Autoliv, said: "We now have full access
to the leading computing platform for autonomous driving. Autoliv,
Volvo Cars and NVIDIA share the same vision for safe, autonomous
driving. This cooperation will further advance our leading ADAS and
autonomous driving product and solution offerings to the
market."
"This cooperation with NVIDIA places Volvo, Autoliv and
Zenuity at the forefront of the fast moving market to develop next
generation autonomous driving capabilities and will speed up the
development of Volvo's own commercially available autonomous drive
cars," said Håkan Samuelsson, President and Chief Executive of
Volvo Cars.
Jensen Huang, Chief Executive of NVIDIA, said: "Artificial
intelligence is the essential tool for solving the incredibly
demanding challenge of autonomous driving. We are building on our
earlier collaboration with Volvo to create production ready
vehicles that will make driving safer, lead to greener cities and
reduce congestion on our roads."
Autoliv, Volvo Car Corporation, Zenuity, and NVIDIA will
work together to develop systems that can utilize deep learning --
a form of artificial intelligence -- to recognize objects in their
environment, anticipate potential threats and navigate
safely.
These systems can compare real-time situational awareness
with a known high-definition map, enabling them to plan a safe
route and drive precisely along it, adjusting to ever-changing
circumstances. They also perform other critical functions such as
stitching camera inputs to create a complete surround-view of the
car.
The cooperation with NVIDIA will complement Zenuity's
existing mission to provide Autoliv autonomous vehicle related
software to third party OEMs using Autoliv's established and broad
sales, marketing and distribution network and to provide Volvo Car
Corporation with self-driving software for its own
vehicles.
Inquiries:
Thomas Jönsson,
Group Vice President Communications.
Tel: +46(0)8-58-72-06-27
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