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- Dec 31, 201990% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
Audi and Nvidia Working on Fully Autonomous Car for 2020 Rollout
- At CES on 4 January 2017 Audi and Nvidia announced a collaboration to bring a fully self-driving car to consumers by 2020, using Nvidia's AI car computing platform[1][2][3]
- The demo car was an Audi Q7 Piloted Driving Concept with Nvidia Drive PX 2, which after four days of training drove a complex course without pre-mapped routes[1][2][3]
- TechCrunch describes the target as Level 4 autonomy by 2020, based on the new Xavier platform plus an AI Co-Pilot for interim autonomy[3]
- The partnership is nearly a decade old (about seven years per Nvidia, from virtual cockpit and navigation graphics); Audi planned to expand public-road testing in California and other states in 2018[1][2]
- Nvidia said it partners with over 80 automakers and suppliers; the coming Audi A8 was billed as the first Level 3 automated vehicle[1][2]
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- [1]90%macrumors.com/2017/01/05/audi-and-nvidia-autonomous-car-2020macrumors.com· Posted Jun 21, 2017· Starts Dec 31, 2019 ✓· 49% of score
Happened as dated, per macrumors.com: "…r for 2020 Rollout Audi and Nvidia[2] have announced they are working together to bring a fully self-dr…"
- [2]92%NVIDIA, AUDI Partner to Put World's Most Advanced AI Car on Road by 2020nvidianews.nvidia.com· Published Jan 4, 2017· 26% of score
Nvidia's own press release (4 January 2017) states Nvidia and Audi are partnering "to put advanced AI cars on the road starting in 2020", predating the pin's stored 31 December 2019 date by about three years as the initial announcement of the 2020 target.
- [3]85%Nvidia and Audi aim to bring a self-driving AI car to market by 2020techcrunch.com· Published Jan 4, 2017· 26% of score
TechCrunch corroborates the same 4 January 2017 announcement, reporting Nvidia's[2] AI driving tech aims "to market by 2020", again predating the pin's stored 31 December 2019 date as coverage of the original partnership announcement.
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