I had hard times waking up this morning. Half asleep, I hurried up to catch the morning metro before it got very crowded. While waiting for the train to come, a question came to my mind: what if one could enhance an existing systems with Gridcoin mining capabilities? You have only one answer, and you need to chose the best one: what kind of systems would you thing about?
My choice would be Tesla vehicles.
In 2017, Tesla delivered 103 thousands cars with autopilot capabilities, 35% more compared to 2016. To reach self driving capabilities, Tesla selected a system using radar, 360 degrees cameras, and sonars, resulting in the need of a huge computing power to process all those data. The computing power is provided by a NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 AI platform, with a performance of 10 FP16 TFLOPS.
What is all this power used for when the car is sitting idle in a queue on the interstate, or when the car is charging its batteries in a dark garage in California? Nothing! What if the cars will search for a cure for cancer, or for extraterrestrial intelligence?
Image courtesy of Daimler-Benz
