沃尔沃正在通过扩大与英伟达长达近十年的合作伙伴关系，升级其自动驾驶系统。两家公司周四宣布，沃尔沃将在未来车辆中采用英伟达的三款硬件和软件，提供一款可在城市街道和高速公路上行驶的自动驾驶系统。
Volvo is leveling up its automated driving system through an expansion of its nearly decade-long partnership with Nvidia. The companies announced on Thursday that Volvo will use three pieces of Nvidia hardware and software in its future vehicles to provide an automated driving system that can navigate urban streets and highways.
沃尔沃未披露该合作的价值，也未透露哪款车型将率先采用这套新的英伟达技术栈。但沃尔沃软件开发负责人阿尔温·巴肯内斯暗示了这笔交易的规模，以及它如何代表该汽车制造商向开发适用于其电动汽车、插电式混合动力汽车和燃油汽车的全栈技术转型。
Volvo didn’t reveal the value of the partnership or which vehicle model would be the first to use this new Nvidia tech stack. But Alwin Bakkenes, Volvo’s head of software development, hinted at the scale of the deal and how it represents the automaker’s evolution toward developing a full-tech stack designed for its electric vehicles as well as its plug-in hybrids and gas-powered vehicles.
“汽车制造商过去非常像基于车型的开发，并与各种供应商合作等等，我们已经完全改变，并迁移到成为一家全栈技术公司，”巴肯内斯表示，并补充说，沃尔沃将从一款全新车型开始这项合作，该车型“将在不久的将来推出”。他表示，搭载这套新英伟达技术栈的首款车型将在本十年内首发，“然后当然，该技术可以超越那个时间。”虽然沃尔沃与英伟达的关系并非新鲜事，但扩大的合作伙伴关系代表了该汽车制造商将最新自动驾驶软件引入其所有车辆——而不仅仅是其电动汽车的努力。
“Automakers used to be very much like car-line based development and working with various suppliers, etc. and we have completely changed and migrated into being a full tech stack company,” Bakkenes said, adding that Volvo will start this partnership with a brand new vehicle that “will come in the not-too-near future.”He said the first vehicle with this new Nvidia tech stack will debut within the decade, and “then of course the technology can go beyond that.”While Volvo’s relationship with Nvidia isn’t new, the expanded partnership represents the automaker’s effort to bring the latest automated driving software to all of its vehicles — not just its EVs.
沃尔沃的所有电池电动汽车均使用英伟达的Orin计算芯片，该芯片处理来自摄像头、雷达和其他传感器的信息，帮助车辆了解周围环境并做出驾驶决策。
All of Volvo’s battery-electric vehicles use Nvidia’s Orin computer chip, which processes information from cameras, radar, and other sensors to help a vehicle understand its surroundings and make driving decisions.
“我们未来将做的事情实际上是更多地标准化Hyperion——同样来自英伟达——也从传感器组合的角度出发，以真正为与英伟达的更广泛合作开放技术栈，”巴肯内斯表示。
“What we’re going to do in the future is actually standardize more on Hyperion — also from a sensor set perspective — to really open up the stack for for the wider partnership with Nvidia,” Bakkenes said.
在此次深化合作框架下，沃尔沃将把自身的车辆安全系统与工程技术，与英伟达的Hyperion传感器及计算架构、Alpamayo驾驶软件套件以及Halos安全评估层相结合。
Under the expanded partnership, Volvo will combine its vehicle safety systems and engineering with Nvidia’s Hyperion sensor and compute architecture, Alpamayo driving software stack, and Halos safety evaluation layer.
据英伟达汽车业务部门负责人阿里·卡尼介绍，Alpamayo软件套件具备冗余性与多样性。该套件整合了用于开发自动驾驶软件的一系列人工智能模型、数据集以及仿真与开发工具，同时还包含基于机器学习并依托摄像头与雷达感知技术的传统软件模块。
The Alpamayo stack is redundant and diverse, according to Ali Kani, who heads up Nvidia’s automotive division. It combines Alpamayo, a family of AI models, datasets, and simulation and development tools used to build autonomous-driving software, with classical software that uses machine learning and camera and radar perception, he said.
“我们的核心思路是同时运行这两套软件系统，并采用多模态传感器配置，因为这样能显著提升产品的安全性，”卡尼说道。他补充指出，目前已有超过65万名开发者下载使用了开源的Alpamayo软件。
“The point is we run these two stacks at the same time, and we have multimodal sensors in our philosophy because because it’s a safer product that way,” Kani said, adding that the open-source Alpamayo software has now been downloaded by more than 650,000 developers.