Jaguar Land Rover to partner with Nvidia to develop autonomous driving features

Jaguar Land Rover will partner with Nvidia to develop autonomous driving functions for cars and other services. For this, Jaguar and Land Rover cars are going to use Nvidia hardware. From 2025, JLR cars will get Nvidia Drive, a combination of hardware and software from Nvidia.

From 2025, the cars will be equipped with components from the Drive Hyperion platform, such as Orin-socs and Drive AV and Drive IX software. Orin sees Nvidia as the ‘artificial intelligence brain of a car’, which will run an operating system from JLR. Jaguar Land Rover will also work on its own software for the cars based on Nvidia software.

This concerns software that should enable autonomous driving functions, such as ‘automated driving of routes that have been driven a lot’, autonomous parking and driver assistance systems. It doesn’t seem to be about fully autonomous cars yet. The software is also used inside the car cabin, for example to monitor the driver and passengers, or to show a 360-degree view around the car. The cars get ota updates.

Jaguar announced a year ago that it would only make electric cars from 2025. The company worked for years on an electric successor to its flagship sedan XJ, but scrapped it just before its unveiling. The automaker is now working on a new platform for EVs. Land Rover will launch its first electric car in two years. By the end of this decade, Land Rover wants to offer an electric variant of all available cars. Land Rover is also experimenting with hydrogen cars.