Nvidia Drive Hyperion platform passes major safety evaluations for autonomous vehicles

Nvidia Today it was announced that its autonomous vehicle (AV) platform, Nvidia Drive AGX Hyperion, has passed industry safety assessments by TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland – two of the most prominent companies in the industry.
Authorities concerned with automotive safety and cybersecurity.

This achievement raises the bar for autonomous vehicle safety, innovation and performance, Nvidia said during a keynote speech by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at a press conference. Consumer Electronics Show 2025the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.

Drive Hyperion is the industry’s most comprehensive autonomous driving platform. The Drive includes AGX system on a chip (SoC) and reference board design, Nvidia DriveOS automotive operating system, sensor suite, active safety and Level 2+ drive stack.

Automotive safety leaders such as Mercedes-Benz, JLR and Volvo Cars adopt the platform, which is designed to be modular, so customers can easily use what they need. It is also scalable and designed to be upgradable and compatible across future DRIVE SoC generations.

Available in the first half of this year, the latest version of Drive Hyperion – designed for both passenger cars and commercial vehicles – will feature the high-performance Drive AGX Thor SoC built on the Nvidia Blackwell architecture.

“A billion vehicles that travel trillions of miles each year move the world. With autonomous vehicles — one of the largest markets for robotics — now here, the Nvidia Blackwell-powered platform will take this revolution to a higher level,” said Huang. “Coming from autonomous devices on the physical foundation models of the AI ​​world to understand and interact with the real world, Nvidia Drive is specifically designed for this new era, delivering unparalleled functional security and AI.”

Forward driving safety: Certified guarantee for next generation vehicles

Next generation vehicles will be increasingly software defined, and will be able to receive new features and functionality throughout their lifespan. Leveraging the 15,000 years of engineering Nvidia has invested in vehicle safety, DRIVE Hyperion will help ensure that advanced automotive systems with rich AI-based functionality are compliant with the automotive industry’s stringent functional safety and cybersecurity standards.

Nvidia recently received safety certifications and ratings from accredited third parties, including:

● TÜV SÜD, which awarded ISO 21434 certification for Nvidia’s cybersecurity process for automotive SoC, platform and software engineering operations. In addition, Nvidia DriveOS 6.0 is compatible with
ISO 26262 standards for Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) D, pending certification.
● TÜV Rheinland, which conducted an independent UNECE safety assessment of Nvidia Drive AV in relation to safety requirements for complex electronic devices
Systems.

Additionally, Nvidia is now certified by the ANSI National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to provide safety and cybersecurity checks for Nvidia Drive ecosystem partners. The new Nvidia Drive AI Systems Inspection Lab will help the Nvidia Drive automotive ecosystem build autonomous driving software that meets the industry’s evolving safety and AI standards.

Nvidia is the first platform company to achieve a comprehensive set of third-party evaluations for its automotive technologies – including the comprehensive Nvidia Drive self-driving platform, which includes the SoC, operating system, sensor architecture and Level 2+ application software – as well as independent certification as a laboratory To examine the safety of artificial intelligence systems and cybersecurity for the automotive market.

Industry-leading computing powered intelligence

Nvidia Drive Thor, the base computer for Drive Hyperion, is the successor to the production-proven Nvidia Drive Orin. Its architecture compatibility and scalability means developers can use existing software from previous DRIVE product generations, as well as integrate future updates for seamless development paths.

Drive Thor is based on the Nvidia Blackwell architecture and is optimized for the most demanding processing workloads, including those involving generative AI, vision language models, and large language models. Its simplified architecture improves generalization, reduces latency, and enhances safety by harnessing powerful Nvidia accelerated compute to run the comprehensive AV stack and proven security stack in parallel.

Drive Thor paves the way for the next era of autonomous vehicle technology, known as AV 2.0, which includes delivering human-like self-driving capabilities to navigate more complex road scenarios.

In addition to the Drive AGX in-vehicle computer, two other Nvidia computers serve as the foundation for automotive-level AV development: Nvidia DGX systems for training advanced AI models and building a powerful suite of AV software in the cloud, and the Nvidia Omniverse platform that runs on Nvidia OVX systems for simulation and validation . Now powered by the new Nvidia Cosmos Universal Foundation Model platform, these three PCs are equipped to accelerate end-to-end AV development and end-to-end deployment.

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