Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving
Volvo makes a bigger bet on Nvidia for hands-free automated driving
Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia. The companies announced on Thursday that Volvo will use three pieces of Nvidia hardware and software in its future vehicles to provide an automated driving system that can navigate urban streets and highways.
沃尔沃通过扩大与英伟达近十年的合作伙伴关系，正在升级其自动驾驶系统。两家公司周四宣布，沃尔沃将在未来的汽车中使用英伟达的三项硬件和软件技术，以提供能够导航城市街道和高速公路的自动驾驶系统。
Under the expanded partnership, Volvo will combine its vehicle safety systems and engineering with Nvidia’s Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Alpamayo driving software stack, and Halos safety evaluation layer. The Alpamayo stack is redundant and diverse, according to Ali Kani, who heads up Nvidia’s automotive division.
在扩大后的合作关系下，沃尔沃将把其车辆安全系统和工程技术与英伟达的 Hyperion 传感器和计算架构、Alpamayo 驾驶软件堆栈以及 Halos 安全评估层相结合。英伟达汽车部门负责人 Ali Kani 表示，Alpamayo 堆栈具有冗余性和多样性。
It combines Alpamayo, a family of AI models, datasets, and simulation and development tools used to build autonomous-driving software, with classical software that uses machine learning and camera and radar perception, he said. “The point is we run these two stacks at the same time, and we have multimodal sensors in our philosophy because it’s a safer product that way,” Kani said, adding that the open source Alpamayo software has now been downloaded by more than 650,000 developers.
他表示，该系统将 Alpamayo（一系列用于构建自动驾驶软件的 AI 模型、数据集以及仿真和开发工具）与使用机器学习、摄像头和雷达感知的传统软件相结合。Kani 说：“关键在于我们同时运行这两个堆栈，并且我们的理念是采用多模态传感器，因为这样产品更安全。”他补充说，开源的 Alpamayo 软件目前已被超过 65 万名开发者下载。
Volvo didn’t reveal the value of the partnership or which vehicle model would be the first to use this new Nvidia tech stack. But Alwin Bakkenes, Volvo’s head of software development, hinted at the scale of the deal and how it represents the automaker’s evolution toward developing a full-tech stack designed for its electric vehicles as well as its plug-in hybrids and gas-powered vehicles.
沃尔沃并未透露此次合作的金额，也没有说明哪款车型将率先使用这一新的英伟达技术堆栈。但沃尔沃软件开发主管 Alwin Bakkenes 暗示了这笔交易的规模，并表示这代表了该汽车制造商向开发全技术堆栈的演进，该堆栈旨在服务于其电动汽车、插电式混合动力汽车以及燃油车。
“Automakers used to be very much like car-line-based development and working with various suppliers, etc. and we have completely changed and migrated into being a full-tech stack company,” Bakkenes said, adding that Volvo will start this partnership with a brand new vehicle that “will come in the not-too-near future.”
Bakkenes 说：“汽车制造商过去非常依赖基于车系的开发，并与各种供应商合作等，而我们已经彻底改变并转型为一家全技术堆栈公司。”他补充说，沃尔沃将从一款全新的汽车开始这项合作，该车型“将在不久后的未来推出”。
He said the first vehicle with this new Nvidia tech stack will debut within the decade, and “then of course the technology can go beyond that.” While Volvo’s relationship with Nvidia isn’t new, the expanded partnership represents the automaker’s effort to bring the latest automated driving software to all of its vehicles — not just its EVs.
他表示，首款搭载这一新英伟达技术堆栈的汽车将在十年内亮相，并且“届时该技术当然可以应用到更多领域”。虽然沃尔沃与英伟达的关系并非新鲜事，但此次扩大的合作代表了该汽车制造商致力于将最新的自动驾驶软件引入其所有车型，而不仅仅是电动汽车。
All of Volvo’s battery-electric vehicles use Nvidia’s Orin computer chip, which processes information from cameras, radar, and other sensors to help a vehicle understand its surroundings and make driving decisions. “What we’re going to do in the future is actually standardize more on Hyperion — also from a sensor set perspective — to really open up the stack for the wider partnership with Nvidia,” Bakkenes said.
沃尔沃所有的纯电动汽车都使用英伟达的 Orin 计算机芯片，该芯片处理来自摄像头、雷达和其他传感器的信息，以帮助车辆理解周围环境并做出驾驶决策。Bakkenes 说：“我们未来要做的是在 Hyperion 上实现更多的标准化——也包括从传感器组的角度——从而真正开放堆栈，以便与英伟达进行更广泛的合作。”