Welcome to the NVIDIA DriveWorks SDK API Reference. Fully autonomous and driver assistance technologies have become a key focus for car manufacturers, transportation services, and technology companies. A self-driving car must know exactly where it is, recognize the objects around it, and continuously calculate the optimal path for a safe driving experience.

The NVIDIA^® DriveWorks software development kit (SDK) provides a foundation to build applications, leveraging the computationally intensive algorithms for object detection, map localization, and path planning.

The DriveWorks SDK runs under NVIDIA DRIVE^™ SDK for NVIDIA DRIVE^™ PX 2. The following illustration shows the NVIDIA DRIVE PX 2 platform and the DriveWorks software stack.