Nvidia has added two electric vehicle makers to its portfolio of automotive companies adopting its Drive Hyperion platform, a compute and sensor toolkit that powers automated driving capabilities in everything from private passenger vehicles to robotaxis to autonomous trucks.
Chinese automaker BYD and American automaker Lucid Motors, two companies that offer software-defined features like intelligent parking and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), announced on Tuesday at Nvidia’s GTC AI developer conference that they have joined the ranks of other OEMs that rely on Nvidia’s hardware, software and compute solutions — companies like JiDU, Polestar, Li Auto, Nio, Xpeng, Volvo, Mercedes, Jaguar Land Rover and more.
Automakers are vying for the attention of would-be customers by promising features that make driving less of an action and more of a spectator sport. The problem is, while many OEMs tout themselves as having a “software-defined” approach, many of them don’t…