Meet Your Autonomous Vehicle Chauffeur

DRIVE Chauffeur is built using NVIDIA DRIVE Perception, which is designed to detect and classify objects, drivable spaces, lanes, and road markings, as well as traffic lights and signs. It can estimate distances to each detected object and fuse inputs from multiple heterogeneous sensor modalities.

The NVIDIA DRIVE Planning module serves as the brain of DRIVE Chauffeur and plans and controls the vehicle’s motion. It relies on a unified architecture to support active safety, driving, and parking functions. Using information from perception, prediction, localization, and other modules, it generates an optimal trajectory through a series of model-based and data-driven analyses. It also ensures the effective execution of the trajectory by means of precise control systems for the vehicle.