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While Uber makes use of Nvidia hardware in its own self-driving automotive technology, it does not employ Nvidia’s Drive autonomous computing platform, which includes the GPU-makers own real-time sensor fusion, HD mapping and path planning … That Nvidia ceased its own testing on public roads (its fleet comprises only about 5 or 6 vehicles in total at any given time, the company points out) out of an abundance of caution, and simply because it’s good engineering practice to pause and reflect when a new variable is discovered in any engineering problem … The Nvidia CEO also clarified that Nvidia stopped its testing only almost a day or two after the accident occurred, as soon as the news became clear to us, and not only when news broke publicly earlier this week that its testing program had been suspended.