Nissan said that he would use autonomous software developed by Wayve to strengthen his advanced driving aid system from 2027, a historic agreement for the British startup Buzzy which collected more than $ 1.3 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBank Group and and and the Softbank and Group Uber.
Nissan will incorporate Wayve software as well as sensors, including the LIDAR of an unharmed supplier, in its ADAS system known as propilot. The Japanese car manufacturer has said that the system will establish a “new standard for autonomous driving with advanced collision avoidance capacity”.
Nissan said the system developed for mass production by 2027 will be a level 2 system operating under driver’s supervision. Nissan did not reveal what models in which the system would be available. Level 2, as defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers, means that the system can automate several driving tasks such as steering and braking, but always requires a driver to maintain control at any time.
Wayve, launched in 2017, drew attention and investors for its automated driving system, which is self-learning in relation to rules based on rules, similar to the approach of Tesla. Wayve has developed its learning approach based on end -to -end data for “eyes” assisted driving and a fully automated automated driving system.
Unlike Tesla, Wayve plans to sell its “embodied AI” to car manufacturers and other technological companies.
Wayve’s self-learning approach is considered particularly attractive for car manufacturers because it does not depend on specific sensors or HD cards. This means that the Wayve system can work with existing sensors such as cameras and radar. The automated driving software captures data from these sensors, which directly informs system driving decisions.
And while the startup development fleet uses the NVIDIA Puce Orin system, the co-founder and CEO Alex Kendall said that the software could work throughout the GPU that its OEM partners have already in their vehicles.
All this results in cheap and used driving assistance, robotaxis and robotics software, said Kendall last month at the NVIDIA GTC conference.
Nissan’s spokesperson, Shiro Nagai, noted in an email of this Wayve, the AI foundation model of Wayve, an end-to-scale AI formed on large quantities of actual driving data, allows the software to adapt to different vehicle environments and platforms.
“Take advantage of Nissan and Wayve AI technology, we are convinced that it will allow future Nissan vehicles to closely reproduce the judgment and actions of a cautious and competent human driver in complex driving scenarios,” said Nagai.
