Plus, a U.S. self-driving truck technology company, will equip the next generation of its autonomous truck driving system with the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC). The company plans to roll out this next-generation system in 2022 across the U.S., China and Europe.
Plus is starting mass production of its autonomous driving system for heavy trucks in 2021, and will expand its feature set and operating design domain over time through over-the-air (OTA) software updates. By working closely with the NVIDIA engineering team, Plus says it will make it possible for trucks ‘powered by its system to achieve fail-operational performance for greatest on-road safety’.
The company closed $200 million in new funding in February, and announced collaborations with Amazon AWS, Blackberry QNX, and Ouster.
Hao Zheng, CTO and Co-founder, Plus, says: “Enormous computing power is needed to process the trillions of operations that our autonomous driving system runs every fraction of a second. NVIDIA Orin is a natural choice for us and the close collaboration with the NVIDIA team on a custom design for our system helps us achieve our commercialization goals. We have received more than 10,000 pre-orders of our system, and will continue to develop our next-generation product based on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform as we deliver the systems to our customers.”
Rishi Dhall, vice president of autonomous vehicles, NVIDIA, adds: “Plus and its automated trucks are delivering true social benefits today through improved safety and efficiency. With NVIDIA DRIVE Orin, Plus’ next-generation automated system will raise the performance bar even higher.”
Founded in 2016, Plus specialises in providing full-stack self-driving technology to enable large scale autonomous commercial transport.
Keyword: Plus Builds Next-Generation Autonomous Driving System on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin