Comma.ai founder: Tesla should sell self-driving chips to compete with Nvidia

On October 28, according to foreign media reports, George Hotz, founder of comma.ai, an autonomous driving technology developer, believes that electric car maker Tesla should sell its autonomous driving chips to compete with semiconductor manufacturer Nvidia.

Currently, Tesla is developing its own autonomous driving chips. The company can fully enter the field of autonomous driving travel with its leading autonomous driving technology.

It is reported that since March 2019, the company has installed the computing platform HW3.0, which it claims can be upgraded to a fully autonomous driving system, on every new Model S/X/3/Y that rolls off the production line.

In August this year, Tesla CEO Musk said that the company is also developing a neural network training computer called Dojo to train its autonomous driving neural network. He also hinted that Dojo will help achieve the goal of fully autonomous driving.

At last year's Autonomy Day, Musk said that the goal of Dojo is to be able to receive large amounts of data and train at the video level, and to use Dojo programs or Dojo computers to perform unsupervised large-scale training on large amounts of videos.

Hotz said Nvidia currently has essentially a monopoly on training self-driving cars, and he believes Nvidia is using that monopoly to overprice its high-end chips, thereby increasing its profit margins.

He said that someone must stand up and bring down Nvidia, and he believed that Tesla might be the company that could compete with Nvidia.

Founded in September 2015, comma.ai is a company dedicated to the research and development of autonomous driving systems based on artificial intelligence technology.

In February of this year, Comma.ai launched the latest version of its assisted driving hardware (suite), Comma Two, at CES 2020. This hardware has a front-facing camera, similar in size to a smartphone, that can be mounted on a car windshield to display the road conditions ahead and highlight the current lane, speed, and speed limit information.