Nvidia’s Drive Constellation lets autonomous cars drive billions of miles in VR

No matter how much you test a self-driving car, it isn’t enough. There are too many situations the artificial intelligence system has to train for and not enough testing time on the highways. So Nvidia has created Drive Constellation, a simulation platform that tests autonomous vehicles in virtual reality. Nvidia said the system will let it test the AI for self-driving cars by driving billions of miles in VR simulations.

Announced at the GTC event in San Jose, California, the technology is a fusion of two very different technologies enabled by Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs): self-driving cars and VR. (We predicted this kind of system at our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event, as car software makers used games to simulate conditions for self-driving cars.)