Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its new self-driving simulation offering Tuesday, after halting real-world tests of autonomous vehicles in the wake of a pedestrian death at the hands of an Uber Technologies Inc. car testing the technology last week. In the keynote address of Nvidia’s annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Calif., Chief Executive Jensen Huang pitched the service as a way for cars to learn how to drive themselves in a virtual environment instead of on real roads. Huang noted that a fleet of 20 cars could only drive about 1 million miles in a year, while the Constellation simulator could allow for billions of miles driven in a year. Huang announced that early-access partners will have access to the system in the third quarter of this year. Nvidia shares fell after news of the self-driving testing halt arrived as Huang took the stage, and were recently down more than 5% on the day, while the S&P 500 index was trading close to flat.
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