Mexican Media Brands
Einride Puts NVIDIA’s Orin Behind the Wheel
“To capture and account for the diversity in a myriad of operational scenarios, and to develop the redundancy necessary to improve functionality, we need the most advanced processors possible, and that’s where NVIDIA Orin comes in,” said Pär Degerman, CTO of Einride.
.jpg;width=70;height=70;mode=crop)
Share
This is the Einride Pod:
It is a truck. An electric truck that has a range of 130 to 180 km per charge.
It can handle 15 to 18 pallets and a payload of 16 tonnes.
One of the things that it doesn’t have, as you’ve undoubtedly noticed, is a cab where a driver would be located.
That’s because it is an autonomous vehicle.
Einride, a Swedish tech company, has two scenarios for where its vehicles run: on back roads, which Einride designates “AET 3-Rural” (AET = Autonomous Electric Transport), and on highways (AET 4).
So what’s “driving” the Pods? The company has announced that the vehicles will be deploying the DRIVE AGX Orin computing platform from NVIDIA.
That computing platform consists of 17 billion transistors.
NVIDIA Orin system on a chip being used to power Einride’s autonomous capabilities. (Image: NVIDIA)
The Orin system-on-a-chip (SoC) performs more than 200 trillion operations per second.
All that, and according to NVIDIA there is a 3x power efficiency improvement compared to its previous-generation SoC.
Danny Shapiro, senior director of automotive, NVIDIA, says, “Our Orin SoC is born out of the data center--delivering the massive compute capability necessary to enable Einride to bring to market transport solutions that can safely increase productivity and improve utilization.”
RELATED CONTENT
-
Operator of Uber Self-Driving Car Wasn't Watching Before Fatal Crash
In-car video shows that the backup pilot of an Uber Technologies self-driving car was not watching the road just before the vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian last Sunday night.
-
Jeeps Modified for Moab
On Easter morning in Moab, Utah, when the population of that exceedingly-hard-to-get-to town in one of the most beautiful settings on Earth has more than doubled, some people won’t be hunting for Easter eggs, but will be trying to get a good look at one of the vehicles six that Jeep has prepared for real-life, fast-feedback from the assembled at the annual Easter Jeep Safari.
-
On Fuel Cells, Battery Enclosures, and Lucid Air
A skateboard for fuel cells, building a better battery enclosure, what ADAS does, a big engine for boats, the curious case of lean production, what drivers think, and why Lucid is remarkable
