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one of the most important steps in building the self-driving car of the future is getting the sensors right letting the car know what's in the world around it right now I'm in a car by Renaissance a chip company that supplies chips to automotive manufacturers around the world they're just testing out their new our car h2 chip that can actually enable self-driving but at this point we're just looking at the sensor fusion what how these chips process the sensors around the car so we've got a view right now a surround view from cameras around this car we're in and this is showing us what's all the way around the car and this is being processed by the computers the computers can use this to help determine what not to hit and where to go where it's safe to go in a self-driving car but now let's look to another step in this how the car finds the lanes it can go into with this view we're looking at the forward cameras the car is looking at the lanes and the cameras are identifying lane lines and it's using this green band here to show us that it's recognized where the lanes are it's looking at the markings on the road that's obviously crucially important for self-driving cars so can determine where it can actually go and how to stay in its own lane this is what engineers call a scatter pattern this is sensor fusion it's taking all the input from those cameras and light our sensors around the car showing what's around and you actually see on here to identify specific things like there's a car coming up here and again you can see it up here that is telling us that's a car the libraries the computers in the back of this car will recognize these things and apply a label to them now this is just a sensor demonstration at this point but what Renaissance engineers are doing are taking this data and figuring out how they can make the car understand what to do in these circumstances when they find these things on the road so this is one of the first steps in developing the self-driving car that we're looking forward to in the future