The kit is made of two parts: an on-board, car stereo-sized graphics processor packed with image-recognition software, and a larger server which sits at a carmaker’s autonomous car testing lab.

Source: blogs.wsj.com

Great media coverage for NVIDIA, while never claiming to be part of Google’s research project, they have great marketing presence for such a small company in automotive. The question will be around whether graphics processing is the way to establish production self-driving systems. Heat may become an issue at scale.