{"id":24295,"date":"2016-04-05T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T03:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/heres-how-nvidia-is-powering-an-autonomous-electric-race-car"},"modified":"2017-04-25T23:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T06:09:31","slug":"heres-how-nvidia-is-powering-an-autonomous-electric-race-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/heres-how-nvidia-is-powering-an-autonomous-electric-race-car","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s how Nvidia is powering an autonomous, electric race car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.in.techradar.com\/photo\/51706148.cms\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Could we see race car driver careers become all AI? Nvidia is testing the concept.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Formula E is going completely autonomous with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/us\/news\/car-tech\/driverless-cars-are-going-to-turn-formula-e-into-a-giant-scalextric-1309938\">all-new Roborace series<\/a> slated for the upcoming race season. At its GTC developer conference, Nvidia announced these autonomous, electric race cars will be powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/us\/news\/car-tech\/nvidia-s-unveils-self-driving-car-drive-px-2-platform-1312214\">Nvidia Drive PX 2<\/a>, a supercomputer built for self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>Drive PX 2 is powered by 12 CPU cores and four Pascal GPUs that provides eight teraflops of computer power. The supercomputer-in-a-box is vital to deep learning and trains artificial intelligence to adapts to different driving conditions, including asphalt, rain and dirt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-how-nvidia-is-powering-an-autonomous-electric-race-car2.jpg\" alt=\"Jen-Hsun\" width=\"640\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.in.techradar.com\/news\/car-tech\/Heres-how-Nvidia-is-powering-an-autonomous-electric-race-car\/articleshow\/51706148.cms\">http:\/\/www.in.techradar.com\/news\/car-tech\/Heres-how-Nvidia-i...706148.cms<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we see race car driver careers become all AI? Nvidia is testing the concept. Formula E is going completely autonomous with the all-new Roborace series slated for the upcoming race season. At its GTC developer conference, Nvidia announced these autonomous, electric race cars will be powered by Nvidia Drive PX 2, a supercomputer built [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56011,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions\/56011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}