Ex-NVIDIA engineer recalls building Audi's self-parking vision system 13 years ago
ProfBuehlerMIT · x · 2026-09-23
A former NVIDIA engineer responds to a discussion about a self-parking demo: 13 years ago his team helped Audi develop vision systems for automated parking on tiny compute, yet the demo still looks impressive today.
He shares that the backend relied on heavy CUDA graph optimizations, including separable convolutions that later became bedrocks of modern inference engines. The thread includes the original demo video — a valuable first-hand anecdote from early autonomous-driving engineering.
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