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> currently you plug a GPU card, an incredibly sofisticated piece of technology in your PC, and it mostly just works. First of all, when it comes to self-drivi

> currently you plug a GPU card, an incredibly sofisticated piece of technology in your PC, and it mostly just works. First of all, when it comes to self-driving technology (where GPU-like devices are being used today), "mostly" is nowhere near good enough. Secondly, do you really expect drivers (the software kind, not the meat-sack kind) and hardware to have any better results in a car than in a PC? Imagine the future where you upgrade your car's processors, but the new drivers conflict with the drivers for your airbag sensors. So now you have to upgrade those drivers as well to wait for a path from NVidia. Sorry, this sounds nice in theory, but I don't think it's workable at this level. Batteries and motor wiring? Maybe, but packaging restrictions would take away a lot of designers freedom to design...

RealityVoid 9y ago
> Secondly, do you really expect drivers (the software kind, not the meat-sack kind) and hardware to have any better results in a car than in a PC? A modern car is a series of different PC's connected by a CAN BUS. It's much easyer to standardise comm protocols and CAN messages than a whole PC stack. And yet, currently, there is no such common standard. I see no reason why CAN modules could not be plug&play. There is a common SW stack standard, AUTOSAR, but it's, most of the time not firggin working or the implementation is incompatible with other implementations. Auto industry SW is a shithole of inneficiency.