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Automakers that want to build autonomous vehicles
About NVIDIA DRIVE
Software is what turns a vehicle into an intelligent machine. The NVIDIA DRIVE™ Software stack is open, empowering developers to efficiently build and deploy a variety of state-of-the-art AV applications, including perception, localization and mapping, planning and control, driver monitoring, and natural language processing. The foundation of the DRIVE Software stack, DRIVE OS is the first safe operating system for accelerated computing. It includes NvMedia for sensor input processing, NVIDIA CUDA® libraries for efficient parallel computing implementations, NVIDIA TensorRT™ for real-time AI inference, and other developer tools and modules to access hardware engines. The NVIDIA DriveWorks® SDK provides middleware functions on top of DRIVE OS that are fundamental to autonomous vehicle development. These consist of the sensor abstraction layer (SAL) and sensor plugins, data recorder, vehicle I/O support, and a deep neural network (DNN) framework.
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NVIDIA DRIVE Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What kinds of users and organization types does NVIDIA DRIVE work with?
NVIDIA DRIVE works with these users and organization types: Mid Size Business, Small Business, Enterprise, Freelance, Nonprofit, Government, and Startup.
Q: What languages does NVIDIA DRIVE support in their product?
NVIDIA DRIVE supports these languages: English.
Q: What kind of support options does NVIDIA DRIVE offer?
NVIDIA DRIVE offers support via online.
Q: What other applications or services does NVIDIA DRIVE integrate with?
NVIDIA DRIVE integrates with: Alibaba Cloud Anti-Bot Service, Alibaba Cloud SSL Certificates Service, Azure IoT Edge, BriefCam, Brytlyt, Chainer, Cisco Kinetic, Deepgram, einfochips, FlashBlade//S, Hydro66, UltraDDoS Protect, NVMesh, phoenixNAP, SAP Data Intelligence, SAP Data Services, SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, SAP Internet of Things, Secuvy AI, VAST Data, Voicy.ai, and ZEDEDA and more.
