However, the adoption of more advanced SAE Level 3 autonomous systems has been more limited due to technological barriers, regulatory challenges, and vehicle costs.
Training autonomous driving models using realistic simulation scenarios and rare edge cases will be critical in accelerating the commercialisation of autonomous technologies, so Nvidia’s unveiling of its ‘three computer’ approach at CES 2025 will have a critical role to play. It brings together an AI development platform, a simulation and synthetic data generation platform, and in-vehicle autonomous driving chips – all three are essential in driving future Level 3 adoption.
In terms of regulation, the EU and Japan have already implemented regulations for Level 3 autonomous vehicles, while China is working to accelerate the adoption of autonomous technologies in passenger vehicles.
Commercial deployment of Level 4 Robotaxis and autonomous buses is also expanding with Tesla announcing its Cybercab program back in October 2024.
Consequently, while Level 3 vehicles are still priced at a premium as technical and regulatory obstacles are addressed the number of Level 3 car models is projected to grow significantly.
In fact, by 2030, according to TrendForce, these vehicles are expected to account for 10% of newly launched electric passenger car models.
