Nvidia Drive Hyperion computer will be part of all Jaguar Land Rover cars by 2025
India Today
Future Jaguar Land Rover vehicles will come with Nvidia's Drive Hyperion 8 platform to enable better safety, automated driving and driver-assist systems in the car, along with new-age in-vehicle features.
Some of the best technology features these days are focused on bringing automated solutions to vehicles. Case in point, Nvidia and Jaguar Land Rover have announced a partnership wherein Nvidia's Drive Hyperion 8 platform will be used in the latter's cars. With the platform serving as the central nervous system of the vehicle, JLR cars will be developed with NVIDIA AI from end to end. The partnership will take its first shape as a JLR car in 2025.
The collaboration is meant to bring automated driving features to Jaguar Land Rover vehicles. These solutions will pan across "active safety, automated driving and parking systems, as well as driver assistance systems" on the premium luxury cars. In addition, Nvidia's platform will also enable AI features inside the vehicle, including "driver and occupant monitoring and advanced visualization."
For all this, the Nvidia Drive Hyperion 8 platform comprises various components. These include DRIVE Orin, DRIVE AV and DRIVE IX software stack. While the first will focus on safety and automated driving systems, DRIVE AV will enable driver assistance systems and DRIVE IX will bring in-vehicle AI-controlled features.
The software-defined features on future Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles will come as part of JLR's Reimagine strategy and are understandably meant to enhance the user experience of these vehicles. Nvidia says that these vehicles will be built on a "unified computer architecture," so that the AI features can be enabled as per ongoing customer value and new business models. Nvidia says the centralized compute and over the air upgrades will also help with better supply chain management.
The development of a vehicle based on Nvidia's platform will begin in the data centre of the company. "Engineers from both companies will work together to train, test and validate new automated driving features using NVIDIA data centre solutions," the company notes in its blog.
Once the features are tested, Jaguar Land Rover will deploy this full-stack solution on Nvidia Drive Hyperion. Drive Hyperion includes "the safety, security systems, networking and surrounding sensors used for autonomous driving, parking and intelligent cockpit applications," the blog states.
These platforms will also be improved continuously and "supported throughout their lifetimes" by software and AI engineers at NVIDIA and Jaguar Land Rover. Programmable cars with new functionalities are thus what we can expect from the JLR fleet in the time to come.
