Two prominent hardware announcements have made self-driving headlines this week, with gargantuan OEM Delphi declaring a deal with machine-vision specialist Mobileye, and Nvidia taking the wraps off of its Parker SoC that augments its GPU-based Drive PX2 platform. It’s good to see the guts of the projects piquing the interest of the consumer media outlets, as convincing consumers of the safety of these machines is key to boosting adoption – especially if we are moving to a ride-sharing model in which consumers are going to have to trust whichever autonomous car pulls up to the curb after being hailed by an app in a smartphone. With Delphi Automotive, an automotive OEM that is establishing a lead in the autonomous sector,…