NVIDIA is the inventor of the GPU, the computer device that creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, and personal computers. It is Tesla's supplier of choice for the components that power its 17? touchscreen in the Model S. NVIDIA is a global company with interests in many emerging computer technologies, one of which is autonomous driving systems. A team of NVIDIA engineers working out of a former Bell Labs office in New Jersey decided to use deep learning to teach an automobile how to drive. As it happens, Bell Labs is where the earliest research into deep learning -- sometimes called artificial intelligence or AI -- took place. The project was called DAVE2, in honor of DARPA Autonomous Vehicle (DAVE) program.