American Consequences - September 2017

Case in point, texting while driving... It’s now a leading cause of car crashes, right up there with drunk driving. It leads to more minor accidents and about one-third as many deaths as drunk driving, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Technology can protect us from that. It’s hard to measure what this might be worth, but Huang believes self-driving cars will hit the market this year, much sooner than outside pundits think. Practically, we agree. At first, we expect this self-driving car will be styled as offering “advanced driver-assistance technologies.” You’ll be able take your hands and your eyes off the road, and the car will take over... But you’ll own the liability. This new market can add billions of dollars in revenue to Nvidia, starting later this year. Each 1% of the total vehicle market share... at $1,000 per graphics card... is worth $900 million to Nvidia. And although Nvidia is a well-known tech company, nobody on Wall Street is betting on artificial brains as a business segment. We’re getting closer and closer to a point when you won’t even have to drive yourself to work. You’ll just sit back, relax, and let the car take you where you need to go. And Nvidia is playing a key role in the development of this technology. As we said earlier, investors who get in now will benefit most from the company’s massive future growth potential...

Each 1% of the total vehicle market share... at $1,000 per graphics card... is worth $900 million to Nvidia.

Dave Lashmet has spent 10 years teaching and writing about medicine and technology at major research universities, and he’s done follow-up research at some of the most important facilities in North America. He is also an inventor on three issued U.S. patents (in high-tech hardware and software), and a co-inventor of three more patent applications currently under review by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Dave writes Venture Technology , an exclusive letter that takes a “venture capitalist” approach to investing... seeking out small- cap speculative stocks with strong catalysts and outstanding breakout growth potential. His subscribers there are up as much as 185% in Nvidia.

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