Following the fatal crash during an Uber self-driving car
test last week, autonomous vehicle hardware and software supplier NVidia has
announced it’s suspending its own self-driving vehicle tests
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The chipmaker currently partners with Uber, Tesla, Volvo, and
hundreds of other car makers, sensor companies, and self-driving vehicle
companies to provide much of the foundational technology used to control
autonomous vehicles.
“We are temporarily suspending the testing of our self-driving
cars on public roads to learn from the Uber incident. Our global fleet of
manually driven data collection vehicles continue to operate,” the company said
in a statement.
An NVidia spokesperson told Mashable only the company’s own
program will pause testing. Partner programs will continue with self-driving
efforts unless they have announced otherwise.
