• TU-Automotive, Tuesday, March 14, 2017 10:35 AM

For all the talk surrounding autonomous vehicles, little has been said about the technology’s roots in entertainment. Sci-fi movies have showcased the potential of self-driving cars for several years but they haven’t provided any practical solutions. Elements of autonomous driving actually came from another source: video games. “Some of the earliest games out there were simulators of vehicles and they always had a cause and effect,” said Sanford Russell, senior director of autonomous driving ecosystem in North America for gaming and visual computer specialist NVIDIA. “If I hit the vehicle next to me, it has to go do something or it doesn’t feel like a simulator.”

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