Volvo and Autoliv aim to sell self-driving cars with Nvidia AI tech by 2021

Volvo is forming a new joint partnership with Autoliv, called Zenuity, with a focus on developing self-driving automotive software. The plan is to eventually get to the point where they can field self-driving cars for sale, based on Nvidia's Drive PX in-car AI computing platform, by the not-so-distant target year of 2021. That's a tall order, but Nvidia's Drive PX is already being used to power self-driving vehicles in road testing today, including Nvidia's own demonstration vehicles. Volvo and Autoliv's Zenuity will use Nvidia's AI car compute groundwork as the basis for their own software development, with the hopes of speeding up the development progress of Volvo's commercially-targeted autonomous vehicles. The software that we're doing with them will be in some cases unique to Volvo," explained Nvidia's Senior Director of Automotive on call. "But Autoliv also has the rights to make the software available to other automakers.