Earlier this week at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nvidia announced that Toyota is set to be its automotive manufacturing partner as it continues to develop its autonomous driving technology. Essentially, this partnership means that the largest carmaker in the world has teamed up with one of the leading software companies to create self-driving cars. Big news indeed.
Nvidia has already been developing operating systems and softwares for cars and other vehicles, but the company has never had a partner quite like Toyota. In fact, next-generation Toyota vehicles will already make use of the Nvidia Drive AGX Orin autonomous vehicle platform and adopt Nvidia DriveOS for its driver assistance system.
However, neither Nvidia or Toyota has confirmed a date for manufacturing or release. Currently, the Nvidia autonomous vehicle platform has passed safety assessments from TÜV SÜD and TÜV Rheinland, and other carmakers like BYD, Mercedes-Benz, and Volvo have already started building new advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) with Nvidia tech and software. We can’t exactly say when the next-generation autonomous Toyotas are coming, but we can only hope it’s soon.
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On the commercial side, Nvidia has also partnered up with Continental to manufacture autonomous, driverless trucks by 2027. Nvidia has also enlisted Aurora, an American-based start-up focused on developing self-driving trucks.
What sets Nvidia’s autonomous vehicle platform apart from the rest, is its use of artificial intellgience to create a functionally safe and secure driving experience. And that also includes protecting the data generated by each vehicle.
The end goal is to manufacture autonomous vehicles at scale to meet a potentially massive demand worldwide. In that endeavor, Toyota seems like the perfect partner to help Nvidia achieve its global self-driving goal.
