Consumer Reports, which serves as the premier buying guide for everything from big-screen TVs to cars, has given the Tegra-powered Tesla Model S its highest score. The guide’s automotive reviewer, Jake Fisher, awarded the Model S a score of 99 out of 100 points. “Overall, it’s a terrific car,” Fisher said of the Model S.… Read More
The New York International Auto Show has just kicked off, and it’s impossible to miss the wide range of great new models powered by NVIDIA processors. At an exclusive press event, Audi announced the new 2015 A3 Sedan and Sportback, driven by Tegra, that deliver an enhanced version of its Google Earth and Street View… Read More
We’re about to shift the development of driver assistance technologies into high gear. We started with the NVIDIA Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM), which automakers such as Audi, VW and Tesla Motors use to power their in-vehicle infotainment displays and instrument clusters. With VCM, automakers are able to move faster to each new generation of… Read More
Art and science. Design and technology. Style and substance. These aren’t competing ideas, Ralph Gilles, Chrysler’s senior VP for product design, explained in his keynote at our GPU Technology Conference, focusing on how new technology has accelerated automotive design. Starting with the Chrysler 300 – a much-acclaimed sedan introduced in 2003 – Gilles has led… Read More
A Honda scientist speaking at our annual GPU Technology Conference illustrated a vision of the future of driving that looked like a scene from ‘Minority Report.’ Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, of the Honda Research Institute, in Silicon Valley, showed early designs of augmented reality displays that seem to “paint” imagery on the driver’s windshield to aid navigation… Read More
Way, way back four years ago, while fleshing out designs for cars to be used in the movie Tron: Legacy, auto-futurist Daniel Simon would create vehicle concepts, and then leave them to be rendered overnight. When he’d arrive at his office the next morning only to find that the rendering software had crashed at 2:30am,… Read More
The GPU Technology Conference featured more than a dozen breakout sessions focused on how the auto industry is using technology to provide whole new capabilities for drivers and their passengers. Here’s a sampling of talks given by some of the industry’s most creative technologists: 3D Workstation Virtualization for Auto Design In 2006, PSA Peugot Citroen,… Read More
Harley-Davidson is using tools from the movie and gaming industries to shave months off the design and development of its motorcycles. Matthew Gueller, a senior industrial designer for the company, told the GPU Technology Conference about how his eight-person design team is able to crank out new design concepts in hours, even minutes. The veteran… Read More
It won’t be long before your car’s gauges, knobs and buttons go the way of the buggy whip. Instead of fiddling with knobs you’ll be tapping a touchscreen or gesturing to customize your augmented-reality display. That’s because car companies are racing to build smartphone and tablet technology into their vehicles, to provide better information for… Read More
No, we don’t make cars. But our presence at the 83rd annual Geneva Motor Show, which opens to the public today, is impossible to miss. The newest cars from McLaren, Lamborghini, Audi, Skoda, BMW, Tesla Motors and Volkswagen all feature impressive infotainment systems or digital instrument clusters driven by NVIDIA processors. They include the new… Read More
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