The taxi business is already facing hard times with Uber, Lyft, and the like entering into the picture. Autonomous vehicles will be the end of the taxi driver but not the taxi business. Uber will gladly continue providing rides just without the human component.
Much like train drivers, I doubt that trucks will ever be totally driver-less, even if remote control is possible. There are just too many variables for people to trust self driving vehicles. The multiple (overblown) tesla S crashes are not helping things.
Plus, all it takes is a single hack causing massive crashes, and all trust of self driving goes out the window for 10 years. And given the car industry's current record for safety in this area, I dont have high hopes.
There are signallers, yes, but the trains themselves are autonomous -- they respond to the signals, with the computer controlling accelerating and braking. It's much safer.
Autonomous vehicles will most certainly bring a benefit of saving many, many lives - both those that cause crashes and those impacted by them. In dense urban areas, where people have no space for cars (Manhattan, for example), taxi companies will continue to exist, but the drivers themselves will likely become more like chauffeurs, opening doors, helping with luggage, becoming more high end like Lyft or Uber. Personally, I'm hoping for Johnny Cab.
More than that, however, I believe that this will reignite the passion for the open road that we first saw after World War II. A two or three day road trip is now a one day road trip. If your car could drive you anywhere and you could sleep, read, or watch Netflix while it does that - where would you go? Visit family or friends more often that are 5-10 hours away? Leave at bedtime and arrive in the morning! Tour the national parks, see the Grand Canyon. I could see domestic travel and tourism rise significantly. Shorter domestic flights might suffer a bit. A flight from Chicago to Minneapolis is about 5 hours after factoring the commute to and from the airport, security lines, and typical delays. You could drive it in 6 for less money and be significantly more comfortable while doing so.
Very wrong... the best part of having your DREAM/performance car is driving it.
For your average daily commuting car, anything will do. For me, traffic is always happen on normal human activity time, who in the right mind want to face traffic all the time every single weekday?
With this technology and your worried about taxi drivers jobs. This is going to replace radiology, doctors, and heathcare and do it better than any human. He is a genius..... A computer that can teach itself. It can be good and bad. Depending on who gets there hands on it.
Few years ago Nvidia showed their GPU roadmap that went out quite a few years into the future. At the time I believe Kepler was the current architecture with Nvidia showing off Maxwell and Volta with Pascal added at a later date. Have they shown anything since, in terms of an updated roadmap? Anyone know what comes after Volta?
Wow.... he still insists that they invented the GPU. Well the courts said "No!". Instead they where about to get punished by Samsung, but thankfully for them, Samsung didn't gone to the end.
They did invent the GPU, but that's because they invented the term, so they got to decide on the definition when they released the GeForce 256, the first chip to have hardware TnL and rendering. Granted, this doesn't mean they were the first to create a 3D accelerator or anything like that.
I am sure Nvidia only invented the term GPU as in being first to use GPU in their marketing. There were several 3D chips before Nvidia invented anything Graphics related video cards for the PC. All you have to do is google it before GPU was a term the Graphics cards were called 3D cards or 3D Video cards.
So the term GPU comes from nVidia, actually. They coined the term with the GeForce 256. They defined it as a single chip that did hardware TnL and rendering. I don't think anything prior to the GeForce 256 had the hardware to meet their definition, which has become the defacto standard for what a GPU technically is.
Actually 3dfx sued NVidia for patent infringement, which NVidia looked like they were going to lose, after which NVidia acquired 3dfx and dropped the lawsuit.
Since NVidia now owns the husk of 3dfx, they probably get to claim they invented the GPU. Though it was actually a company they acquired that invented the GPU.
I don't remember 3dfx ever having release a hardware T&L capable video card. I had the Voodoo 5 5500 PCI and it only had software TnL(Geometry Assist). The never released 3dfx Rampage was suppose to be the first HardwareTnL capable card from them.
3dfx very famously forwent hardware T&L. 3dfx did sue NVIDIA over multi-texturing patents in 2002, it seems. The suit related to the RIVA TNT, a card that had come out 4 years before in 1998. In 2000, 3dfx had already entered bankruptcy proceedings. In 2002 NVIDIA acquired 3dfx. The suit was probably either some last ditch effort to retain more value in the company in eventual bankruptcy or an effort to gain negotiating power with NVIDIA in the buyout talks. VIA was also bidding for 3dfx at the time. Regardless, the patents in the suit had nothing to do with hardware T&L. 3dfx was behind on that.
NVIDIA's claim to inventing the GPU isn't that they invented hardware 3d graphics acceleration. This is their definition: http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu.html.
It's a bit contrived. But, they were the first to put it all in one chip and the first to call it a 'GPU'. But NVIDIA was also the first company to release a hardware-accelerated programmable shader, with the GeForce 3. That's probably a bigger milestone, but they had already invented the term 'GPU' prior.
I wish to talk with my computer like with another very clever real human. But for this I wait more of twenty-five year andfor my waiting i did not see a end. Siri is fail, Cortana also...When?
The BB8 car is fascinating. I live in a rural area with many roads just like that and while I have tremendous faith in driverless cars, I've been wondering how far away we were from handling that situation. Turns out we're there.
Also I think this is the first confirmation that Volvo's self-driving tech is Nvidia.
NVIDIA stated at either GTC last year or Supercomputing 15 that they had a contract with Volvo for 70 vehicles for testing. I'd assume that relationship has evolved.
I love the idea of self-driving cars! Sure, I worry about the technology and all of the things that could go wrong with it, but I think that it can be made to work and I think it's a much better option than letting people drive themselves around. So many of us are too wrapped up in our emotions to drive safely or are too easily distracted by things going on around us (I caught myself looking at a mother cat and teaching her kittens to hunt instead of paying attention to my car just this morning. >.< ).
My only other concern is that companies will use self-driving cars as a means of collecting data about where people go and what they do in order to profile them and advertise at us. I don't mind they create such mechanisms and then hand control of them over to a government that needs to watch what people are doing, but the companies themselves doing it would be simply creepy beyond words.
"...companies will use self-driving cars as a means of collecting data about where people go and what they do in order to profile them and advertise at us."
They can already do that with the many GPSs in our various devices.
Absolutely correct, that's why if you opt-in to Google Opinion Rewards they will give you surveys (where they pay you ten cents or whatever) in regards to the locations you just visited. It is getting harder and harder to stay "off the grid".
The answer, "Company X, Y, or Z already do it," doesn't justify more companies doing it. There's also a big chunk of people out there who don't own or carry a phone, stop scripts and advertisements from running in their web browsers, decline to use anything Google touches, and run Linux operating systems to at least make it a little bit harder for these data collecting monsters we've created from having as much reach.
Nope. GeForce 256 was the first GPU, because that's when nVidia coined the term. It has come to mean any single chip that does hardware TnL and rendering, to put it simply.
After reading this, I peek outside of the building and saw a van stopped on the zebra crossing. To me living in an outlaw country like Thailand, self-driving car might be the answer... or may lead into disaster, I don't know....
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Qwertilot - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Taxi drivers? They're simply going to be out a job en mass. Along with lorry drivers etc.Its an objectively significant net gain for the human race, but it will take out an awful lot of existing jobs.
SunnyNW - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
The taxi business is already facing hard times with Uber, Lyft, and the like entering into the picture. Autonomous vehicles will be the end of the taxi driver but not the taxi business. Uber will gladly continue providing rides just without the human component.TheinsanegamerN - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Much like train drivers, I doubt that trucks will ever be totally driver-less, even if remote control is possible. There are just too many variables for people to trust self driving vehicles. The multiple (overblown) tesla S crashes are not helping things.Plus, all it takes is a single hack causing massive crashes, and all trust of self driving goes out the window for 10 years. And given the car industry's current record for safety in this area, I dont have high hopes.
Meteor2 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
There are driverless trains in the UK.tamalero - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Theres still people controlling them on a remote center, dont they?Meteor2 - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
There are signallers, yes, but the trains themselves are autonomous -- they respond to the signals, with the computer controlling accelerating and braking. It's much safer.Jeanniev - Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - link
No.at80eighty - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
this analogy would make sense if the environment conditions they operate in were similar; which are basically incomparablenathanddrews - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Autonomous vehicles will most certainly bring a benefit of saving many, many lives - both those that cause crashes and those impacted by them. In dense urban areas, where people have no space for cars (Manhattan, for example), taxi companies will continue to exist, but the drivers themselves will likely become more like chauffeurs, opening doors, helping with luggage, becoming more high end like Lyft or Uber. Personally, I'm hoping for Johnny Cab.More than that, however, I believe that this will reignite the passion for the open road that we first saw after World War II. A two or three day road trip is now a one day road trip. If your car could drive you anywhere and you could sleep, read, or watch Netflix while it does that - where would you go? Visit family or friends more often that are 5-10 hours away? Leave at bedtime and arrive in the morning! Tour the national parks, see the Grand Canyon. I could see domestic travel and tourism rise significantly. Shorter domestic flights might suffer a bit. A flight from Chicago to Minneapolis is about 5 hours after factoring the commute to and from the airport, security lines, and typical delays. You could drive it in 6 for less money and be significantly more comfortable while doing so.
jwcalla - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
The best part of having a car is driving it.I like the idea of everyone else having self-driving cars though.
nathanddrews - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
The best part of having an autonomous car is driving it when you want to and then taking a nap when you don't. ;-)WorldWithoutMadness - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
Very wrong... the best part of having your DREAM/performance car is driving it.For your average daily commuting car, anything will do. For me, traffic is always happen on normal human activity time, who in the right mind want to face traffic all the time every single weekday?
nathanddrews - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
Why can't it be both?mr_tawan - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
I prefer having someone drives for me, though. If possible I'd love to get a nap on my own car.halcyon - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
Future always arrives later than people initially expect. And it's always more profound in it's change when it finally arrives.- Paul Saffo
Find out car replacement rate yearly (for personal cards and trucks). Do the math.
Jeanniev - Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - link
With this technology and your worried about taxi drivers jobs. This is going to replace radiology, doctors, and heathcare and do it better than any human. He is a genius..... A computer that can teach itself. It can be good and bad. Depending on who gets there hands on it.SunnyNW - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Few years ago Nvidia showed their GPU roadmap that went out quite a few years into the future. At the time I believe Kepler was the current architecture with Nvidia showing off Maxwell and Volta with Pascal added at a later date. Have they shown anything since, in terms of an updated roadmap? Anyone know what comes after Volta?jwcalla - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
They haven't released an updated roadmap but I think we can expect one no later than GTC 2017 in Spring.yannigr2 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Wow.... he still insists that they invented the GPU. Well the courts said "No!". Instead they where about to get punished by Samsung, but thankfully for them, Samsung didn't gone to the end.tamalero - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Did he really?He hasnt changed much has he? still the same ego as always.
yannigr2 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
04:49AM EDT - 'NVIDIA invented the GPU, and 10 years ago we invented GPU computing'jordanclock - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
They did invent the GPU, but that's because they invented the term, so they got to decide on the definition when they released the GeForce 256, the first chip to have hardware TnL and rendering. Granted, this doesn't mean they were the first to create a 3D accelerator or anything like that.rocky12345 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
I am sure Nvidia only invented the term GPU as in being first to use GPU in their marketing. There were several 3D chips before Nvidia invented anything Graphics related video cards for the PC. All you have to do is google it before GPU was a term the Graphics cards were called 3D cards or 3D Video cards.jordanclock - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
So the term GPU comes from nVidia, actually. They coined the term with the GeForce 256. They defined it as a single chip that did hardware TnL and rendering. I don't think anything prior to the GeForce 256 had the hardware to meet their definition, which has become the defacto standard for what a GPU technically is.barleyguy - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
3dfx had hardware TnL before NVidia did.Actually 3dfx sued NVidia for patent infringement, which NVidia looked like they were going to lose, after which NVidia acquired 3dfx and dropped the lawsuit.
Since NVidia now owns the husk of 3dfx, they probably get to claim they invented the GPU. Though it was actually a company they acquired that invented the GPU.
fivefeet8 - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
I don't remember 3dfx ever having release a hardware T&L capable video card. I had the Voodoo 5 5500 PCI and it only had software TnL(Geometry Assist). The never released 3dfx Rampage was suppose to be the first HardwareTnL capable card from them.Yojimbo - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
3dfx very famously forwent hardware T&L. 3dfx did sue NVIDIA over multi-texturing patents in 2002, it seems. The suit related to the RIVA TNT, a card that had come out 4 years before in 1998. In 2000, 3dfx had already entered bankruptcy proceedings. In 2002 NVIDIA acquired 3dfx. The suit was probably either some last ditch effort to retain more value in the company in eventual bankruptcy or an effort to gain negotiating power with NVIDIA in the buyout talks. VIA was also bidding for 3dfx at the time. Regardless, the patents in the suit had nothing to do with hardware T&L. 3dfx was behind on that.Yojimbo - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
NVIDIA's claim to inventing the GPU isn't that they invented hardware 3d graphics acceleration. This is their definition: http://www.nvidia.com/object/gpu.html.It's a bit contrived. But, they were the first to put it all in one chip and the first to call it a 'GPU'. But NVIDIA was also the first company to release a hardware-accelerated programmable shader, with the GeForce 3. That's probably a bigger milestone, but they had already invented the term 'GPU' prior.
Pork@III - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
I wish to talk with my computer like with another very clever real human. But for this I wait more of twenty-five year andfor my waiting i did not see a end. Siri is fail, Cortana also...When?Meteor2 - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
The BB8 car is fascinating. I live in a rural area with many roads just like that and while I have tremendous faith in driverless cars, I've been wondering how far away we were from handling that situation. Turns out we're there.Also I think this is the first confirmation that Volvo's self-driving tech is Nvidia.
Ian Cutress - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
NVIDIA stated at either GTC last year or Supercomputing 15 that they had a contract with Volvo for 70 vehicles for testing. I'd assume that relationship has evolved.BrokenCrayons - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
I love the idea of self-driving cars! Sure, I worry about the technology and all of the things that could go wrong with it, but I think that it can be made to work and I think it's a much better option than letting people drive themselves around. So many of us are too wrapped up in our emotions to drive safely or are too easily distracted by things going on around us (I caught myself looking at a mother cat and teaching her kittens to hunt instead of paying attention to my car just this morning. >.< ).My only other concern is that companies will use self-driving cars as a means of collecting data about where people go and what they do in order to profile them and advertise at us. I don't mind they create such mechanisms and then hand control of them over to a government that needs to watch what people are doing, but the companies themselves doing it would be simply creepy beyond words.
D. Lister - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
"...companies will use self-driving cars as a means of collecting data about where people go and what they do in order to profile them and advertise at us."They can already do that with the many GPSs in our various devices.
fanofanand - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Absolutely correct, that's why if you opt-in to Google Opinion Rewards they will give you surveys (where they pay you ten cents or whatever) in regards to the locations you just visited. It is getting harder and harder to stay "off the grid".Meteor2 - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
I'm pretty sure Google Maps Traffic depends upon tracking phone location. Google knows exactly where my phone -- and by extension, myself -- is.BrokenCrayons - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
The answer, "Company X, Y, or Z already do it," doesn't justify more companies doing it. There's also a big chunk of people out there who don't own or carry a phone, stop scripts and advertisements from running in their web browsers, decline to use anything Google touches, and run Linux operating systems to at least make it a little bit harder for these data collecting monsters we've created from having as much reach.Zingam - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
According to my memory ATI invented the GPU????jordanclock - Wednesday, September 28, 2016 - link
Nope. GeForce 256 was the first GPU, because that's when nVidia coined the term. It has come to mean any single chip that does hardware TnL and rendering, to put it simply.mr_tawan - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
After reading this, I peek outside of the building and saw a van stopped on the zebra crossing. To me living in an outlaw country like Thailand, self-driving car might be the answer... or may lead into disaster, I don't know....Michael Bay - Thursday, September 29, 2016 - link
There was a nice bit about neural networks in Watts` Rifters.