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How the autonomous vehicle needs to drive beyond the reach of IoT, Graham Jarvis discovers.

There is an argument that, to a debatable extent, autonomous vehicles require connectivity. Dr Graeme Smith, CEO of Oxbotica, thinks that self-driving cars must have the capability to operate when there is no connectivity at all.

“The design of our vehicles doesn’t require connectivity or GPS because we design the systems to be self-sufficient, so that they are robust and reliable under all conditions,” he says. The problem with having autonomous cars that rely upon connectivity alone falls down to the fact that if it fails there is no way of recovering from it – such as when a self-driving vehicle is within a weak or dead mobile signal area. “So we build everything we need to run autonomously into the vehicle itself, to make sure that it’s self-sufficient,” he adds before explaining that “the question is not whether the vehicle should be connected but what data they would have if they were connected”.

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Published by TU Automotive on 26th May 2017. Author: Graham Jarvis.

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