the tricky road to autonomous cars

THE TRICKY ROAD TO AUTONOMOUS CARSWHAT WE SEE, WHAT WE ARE DOING

[SPECK&TECH, FEB. 27 2017]

Just a game for geeks?

AT A GLANCE

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Cars are communication machines

Connected cars need to play with a smart environment

What we see and do (Torino, Detroit, Trento)

A deep dive on technology: the central nervous system

“AUTONOMOUS”

DOES NOT MEAN

“ISOLATED”

The new heart of the car

Data is the new oil

4,000 GBper day, each day

RADAR

10-100 KBper second

CAMERAS

20-40 MBper second

SONAR

10-100 KBper second GPS

50 KBper second

LINDAR

10-70 MBper second

Source: Intel, 2017

Spending by 2017:

$29.6 billionconnected vehicles

$16.5 billionsmart transportation systems

Source: IDC, 2016

Silicon Valley vs Detroit: who’s winning?

“Making rockets is hard, but making cars is really hard.”

Elon Musk

The end of personal car ownership model?

Beyond LIDAR

There is a light at the end of the tunnel

FOG

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FOG

CLOUD

In-car and car-to-car communications are decoupled

Fog deals with cloud connectivity

DEVICE-TO-CLOUD COMMUNICATION Fog computing

Service Delivery Platform

Service Delivery Platform

CONTAINER-BASED VIRTUALIZATION

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- Discrete piece of logic, with narrow functional boundaries

- Isomorphic code

- Multiple instances of the same artifact

MICROSERVICES

Marrow, neurones and synapses

Central nervous system

Towards a universal mechanism of communication between microservices

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Yes, the road ahead is still tricky!