14 DAY TRIAL // At CES 2016 Nvidia announced some really interesting new hardware aimed at autonomous cars, along with NVIDIA DriveWorks, and they seem to have used Ubuntu for the demo.
The fact that Nvidia shows upcoming technology running on a Linux distribution, in this case, Ubuntu, at CES 2016 shows just how much things have evolved for the open source operating system. This is not the first time Nvidia chose Ubuntu for one of its demonstrations, so this can only mean that confidence in this Linux OS is only getting stronger.
Nvidia DriveWorks is a new piece of software that will help car makers use the new Drive PX 2 hardware that will power some of the autonomous cars in the next few years. Nvidia didn’t just use the Linux OS to show a video; they had the software running in the distribution, natively. NVIDIA DriveWorks will most likely be available for all the available platforms.
Nvidia is not making a big fuss
The presentation was started by the company’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, and it lasted for quite a while. The developers showed how advanced their system is and what the components used to make it work are. The video posted on YouTube makes no mention of Ubuntu, but that’s actually a good thing.
“Watch how Nvidia DriveWorks can accurately model the environment around a car using sensors such as cameras, lidar, radar and GPS, presented at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 in Las Vegas,” is noted on YouTube.
There are probably quite a few people in the audience who are wondering more about just what that operating system is more than how Nvidia DriveWorks will be implemented.
In fact, if we take a look at CES 2015, we’ll see that Nvidia’s CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang, used Ubuntu then as well, taking everyone by surprise. Now it’s 2016 and using Ubuntu seems to be the norm.
