Day Two at MOVE 2024 has kicked off in the keynote theatre. With an impressive first panel discussing the autonomous vehicle industry of today’s transport system, industry-leaders from Nvidia, Baidu, Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Oxa gathered together to contribute to this topic.
The panel’s main topic for discussion revolved around the question of how self-driving cars can become safe, profitable and efficient for the transport system?
Danny Shapiro, VP of Automotive at Nvidia – the “Taylor Swift of the technology industry” – expressed how his company is at the core of each panellists’ companies: Baidu, Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Oxa.
“Nvidia partners with hundreds of global companies to help with data we are partners, its much more complex than anyone imagines. The software is never going to be done. Just like with your phone, there is always going to be updates. Just like cars, they will just keep getting better and better and better,” said Shapiro from Nvidia.
“There is a lot of testing going on in the UK, Europe, China, the States, it’s coming, everything will be autonomous.”
Helen K. Pan, GM and Board Director from BAIDU Apollo. turned the conversation onto the topic of safety, expressing how 95% of car accidents are reportedly due to human error.
She said: “Safety is the top priority, we want to drive down this statistic, autonomous driving can diversify travel opportunities and make people safer.”
Nils Jaeger, President of Volvo Autonomous Solutions, added that safety can be aided by autonomous vehicles not just on the roads but also in other places. He told how there are many fatalities involved in mining which can be helped through self-driving technology:
“We want to remove the human from that environment and make things safer.”
Paul Newman, President of Oxa, passionately added to the conversation that so much of the vehicle is built around of having humans involved. He made a strong point that we need to change the foundation of having the operator in the vehicle if the industry is going to keep pushing forward.
Keynotes panel “Autonomous now” speakers:
Danny Shapiro, VP of Automotive, Nvidia
Helen K. Pan, GM and Board Director, BAIDU Apollo
Nils Jaeger, President, Volvo Autonomous Solutions
Paul Newman, President, Oxa
