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it's been a couple of years since this Delphi modified out II drove itself across the country opening minds and raising eyebrows now here we are about two years later and I'm in a Delphi Audi but this isn't a freeway this is pretty busy congested intersection late in Silicon Valley where right here in the heart of the valley and the cars handling itself as well as it did on the big roads two years ago a big reason why is what automakers call sensor fusion the car has three different ways to see touch behind its bodywork there's radar high-definition cameras and most importantly lidar laser scanning the environment and then looking at the the basically the reflection of that laser beam back to a receiver to determine the distance and as you scan the actual you know features that are out there around the vehicle it gives the car a contoured view of the world around it combine that with the different view that comes from radar and from a camera and the vehicle has more confidence that what it thinks it sees it sees it all adds up to 40 terabytes an hour of data that the car is harvesting and a lot of that has to go to the cloud have decisions made on it and sent back to the car and like that which is why car makers are rushing to adopt the next wireless technology called 5g the first time that have adopted a wireless technology for a mission critical application it brings almost 10x the level of bandwidth compared to current technologies lates and sees in the small number of milliseconds latency would be how much time it takes for something to go from the car to the cloud and then back again so it's really a game-changer in terms of what it brings to autonomous driving because all the wisdom to drive itself may not have to be installed on the car itself Ford outtie Volvo General Motors and more have all promised self-driving no later than 2021 they can write all the clever software they want but they know without the fusion of these new kinds of sensors and successfully helping 5g come to reality we'll all still be driving ourselves you