As car manufacturers use technology to create the safest cars
Car manufacturers usually rely on the computing power of modern GPUs to create the most beautiful cars, but now Honda has also begun to exploit in optical security. Over 1.2 million people die every year due to road accidents. It is the reason that pushes all the major car manufacturers to strive to find solutions that continually improve safety.
It is in this sense Honda R&D Americas and NVIDIA have recently announced a new partnership that will allow the first to use NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to create movies of road accidents in computer-generated graphics in order to give engineers more detailed information on the behavior of the structure of cars in such cases.
At the base of the new system there is the same technology that is used to create the special effects of the films. The designers use the workstation powered by Quadro GPUs to create and view the cars because they are able to effectively manage the CAD tools, but also to simulate the physical and mechanical behavior of the car and driver assistance systems.
Through tools such as 3DXCITE and LS-DYNA, Honda can take advantage of the NVIDIA hardware inside of his simulations of impacts, obtaining photorealistic video that enable designers to instantly see and more clearly the behavior of structures in terms of energy dissipation.
The moment a vehicle reacts in a collision, a wave of energy flowing through the vehicle itself. You have to see these deformation patterns as if they were the ripples that form on the water. GPUs are not only able to simulate the effects of deformation but also apply the dynamic lighting in real time, allowing engineers to see everything with greater clarity.
