Plus, there's going to be a huge amount of data moving around as transport becomes more automated.
https://www.tuxera.com/blog/autonomous-cars-300-tb-of-data-per-year/
Still orders of magnitude less than what 64-bits can provide, but that's just one example.
Yeah, people are clever and have been able to do 128-bit math for a long time. But eventually those tricks aren't enough.
Cheers,
Scott.
https://www.tuxera.com/blog/autonomous-cars-300-tb-of-data-per-year/
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More sensors equals more data
Today, even at lower levels of autonomy, connected cars generate around 25 Gigabytes of data per hour. And as more self-driving features appear inside connected cars, the architecture required to make it all possible will become increasingly complex. This directly correlates to the number of sensors needed for an autonomous system to operate.
It’s important to point out that not all sensors are the same. A broad spectrum of various sensors exists, each having a special purpose and quantity in a car. Depending on the sensor setup, the total amount of data generated can vary substantially. As presented by Stephan Heinrich from Lucid Motors, here are some estimates on sensor-generated data:Combined, the total bandwidth can reach up to 40 GBit/s (~19 TB/h). Even the lowest possible figure of 3GBit/s (~1.4TB/h) is a very substantial amount of data to maintain.
To give you an example of how much data that actually is, a basic laptop with 240 GB of storage on board could hold around 30 DVD movies. But the laptop would run out of storage capacity in less than a minute in this environment. A phone with 32 GB of storage would be full in under 7 seconds, assuming the flash storage would even be able to store data at the required speed.
On a yearly estimate, the amount of data is even more staggering. According to AAA, an average American spends 17,600 minutes driving annually. When combined with the amount of sensor data estimated above, one car could produce between 380 TB to 5,100 TB of data in just one year.
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Still orders of magnitude less than what 64-bits can provide, but that's just one example.
Yeah, people are clever and have been able to do 128-bit math for a long time. But eventually those tricks aren't enough.
Cheers,
Scott.