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# Nvidia's 2025 PhysicalAI-AV dataset holds 1,727 hours of driving, the most of 13 benchmarks tracked
- URL: https://aiadoption.org/data/self-driving-datasets-hours/
- Published: 2026-10-19T16:05:48.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T06:01:04.000Z
- Description: Autonomous driving datasets have grown from 6 hours in KITTI (2012) to 1,282 hours in nuPlan (2024) and 1,727 hours in Nvidia's PhysicalAI-AV (2025). Ten of the 13 tracked hold under 120 hours.
- Author: Manu
- Tags: Data, Robotics, Computer Vision, #chart, #ai-index-2026, #hub-robotics

1,727 hours

#1 of 13

of driving data in Nvidia's PhysicalAI-AV dataset (2025), the largest of the 13 tracked; nuPlan (2024) has 1,282

Nvidia PhysicalAI-AV1,727

nuPlan (2024)1,282

Waymo Open Dataset (2019)574

## What the chart shows

The amount of driving data in public autonomous driving benchmarks has grown. Early sets such as KITTI (2012, 6 hours) and nuScenes (2019, 5.6 hours) held under 10 hours; the Waymo Open Dataset (2019) brought 574 hours, nuPlan (2024) 1,282 and Nvidia’s PhysicalAI-AV (2025) 1,727.

Ten of the 13 still hold under 120 hours, including recent end-to-end and reasoning sets. The AI Index cautions that hours do not capture quality or content: simulated driving is not the same as data from real roads.

## Key numbers

| Measure                             | Value    |
| ----------------------------------- | -------- |
| Nvidia PhysicalAI-AV (2025)         | 1,727 h  |
| nuPlan (2024)                       | 1,282 h  |
| Waymo Open Dataset (2019)           | 574 h    |
| NuPlanQA\* (2025)                   | 119.44 h |
| KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite (2012) | 6 h      |
| DriveLMM-o1\* (2025)                | 0.35 h   |

## How to read it

- Datasets marked \* report estimated rather than measured hours.
- The horizontal axis is logarithmic, so each gridline is ten times the one before.
- The report text gives about 1,600 hours for PhysicalAI-AV and roughly 500 for the Waymo Open Dataset; the data shows 1,727 and 574, which we use.

**Source:** [AI Index](https://aiadoption.org/sources/#ai-index), 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 2.7.8: *Autonomous driving benchmarks/datasets: hours of driving data, 2012–25*. Chart and text by AI Adoption.  
Numbers checked against the published data on 20 October 2026.  
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