{"id":6705,"date":"2021-06-11T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:57:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:57:42","slug":"nvidia-partners-with-mapping-startup-for-av-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/nvidia-partners-with-mapping-startup-for-av-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Partners With Mapping Startup For AV Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chipmaker Nvidia is acquiring DeepMap, a high-definition mapping startup that would support Nvidia&#8217;s autonomous vehicle technology sector, Nvidia Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The biggest challenges to achieving full autonomy are succeeding in proper localization and new mapping information which should reflect changing road conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>By integrating DeepMap technology, Nvidia&#8217;s autonomous stack would have increased precision and given the vehicle better ways to locate itself on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeepMap was founded by former Google, Apple and Baidu employees James Wu and Mark Wheeler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The start-up can now use Nvidia Drive&#8217;s software-defined platform to quickly scale its maps across AV fleets without too much data storage with over-the-air updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the acquisition, Nvidia is also investing in new features for DeepMap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/06\/10\/nvidia-acquires-hi-def-mapping-startup-deepmap-to-bolster-av-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in TechCrunch.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia is acquiring DeepMap, a mapping startup that would support Nvidia&#8217;s autonomous vehicle technology sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6714,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}