Jeff Rick here with the q''-word in Milpitas California and Western Digital offices for the auto tech council autonomous vehicle meetup about 300 people we're looking at all these cool applications and a lot of cutting-edge technologies at the end of the day it's it's data dependent betas got to sit somewhere but really what's interesting here is that the data and more more the data is moving out to the edge and edge computing and nowhere is that more apparent than in autonomous vehicles Preet SIA [Music] [Applause] the technologies that Silicon Valley is famous for inventing cloud-based technology network technology artificial intelligence machine learning historically those may not have been important to a car maker in Detroit so well that's great we had to worry on our transmission and make these ratios better and that era is still with us but they've layered on this extremely important software based in technology based innovation that now is extremely important really autonomous vehicle to be made possible by just the immense amount of sensors that are being put in through the car not much different than as our smartphones or our phones evolved sensing your face gyroscopes GPS all the time things so there's the raw data itself that's coming off the sensors but the metadata is a whole nother level in a big level and even more important ladies the context my sensors are seeing something and then of course you used multiple sensors that's the sensor fusion between them of hey that's a person that's a deer oh don't worry that's a car moving alongside of us and he's staying in his Lane those are the types of decisions were making with this data masta context last was just about like mapping for autonomous videos which is amazing little subset there's been a tremendous amount of change in one year you know one thing I can say we're at the top it's critically important is we've had fatalities and that really shifts a conversation and and refocuses everybody on the issue is safety we're dealing with human life I mean so obviously it needs to be right 99.999 you know Plus pers read it's all about intelligent decisions and being to do that robustly across all type of operating conditions is paramount that's mission-critical slow motion high precision one to two centimeter accuracies to to be able to maneuver in parking lots be able to back up and driveways those are very very complex situations essentially these learning moments have to happen without the human fatality human cost they have to happen in software in simulations in a variety of the ways that don't put people in the public at risk people outside the vehicle haven't even chosen to adopt those risks and part of the things of getting safety is being much more efficient on the vehicle because you have to do a lot more software in order to be safe across multiple different kinds of examples of streets and locations because of this case notion these new kinds of cars new range of suppliers are coming into play we don't want piston rods anymore you want electric motors we need rare earth magnets to put in our electric motors and that's a whole new range for suppliers even before autonomous there are so many new systems in the car now that generated our consume data if you think about a full autonomous vehicle out there driving not two hours a day like we are driving today like 20 hours a day suddenly the storage requirements are very very different you see statistics aren't out there one gigabit per second two gigabits per second everyone's so scared of getting rid of any data right yet there's just tremendous data growth if we don't design the future storage solutions today what's gonna end up is that people are gonna pay much more for storage just to make it basically skates work the reality is that are we taking care of the grid locks that are affecting our city are we moving around enough people are we solving the problems of congestion I'll say no we took a bus and we divided the bus in section so you have a longer vehicle the peak time when it is high demand and shorter vehicle when there is very low demand when you're just a few passengers and the magic is that when those parts are connected one to another they shared internal space by the way all of that can be done autonomously right and we can suffer tomorrow because we can have a driver when we begin using the system and when the technology allow it has to be autonomous we're gonna run the utmost operating system that and the cost is even lower than a box in the roush human world were used to when somebody crashes the car they learn a valuable lesson and maybe the people around them learn to value lesson I'm gonna be more careful I'm not gonna have that drink when Adam Thomas car gets involved in any kind of an accident tremendous number of cars learned the lesson so as a fleet learning and that les is not just shared among one car it might be all Tesla's or all who burst that's a super good point the AV revolution will also require a revolution in the maintenance and sustenance of our road network not just the United States but everywhere in the world the quality of the roads made all the difference in the world for these vehicles to move around there are so many difficult problems to solve along this path that no company can really do it themselves right and of course you're seeking big companies investing billions of dollars but it's great because everybody's saying let's find people that specialize whether it's for sensors or computer or all the rest of those things get them in partner with them have everybody solved the right problem of their specialized and focused on the technology is coming along so fast it's just it's mind-boggling how quickly we are starting to attack these more difficult challenges and we'll get there but it's gonna take time like like anything right we're kind of hoping nobody goes out there and trips up to mess it up for the whole industry because we believe as a whole this will actually bring safety to the market right but a few missteps can create a backlash as Elon Musk puts it success is one of the possible outcomes right but not necessarily abilities but we're doing that right startups and large companies trying to solve not that thousands of problems but the millions and billions of problems that are gonna have to be solved to really get autonomous vehicles to their ultimate destination which is what we're all hoping for it's gonna save a lot of lives we're at the Auto Tech Council autonomous vehicle event in Milpitas California thanks for watching specialist [Music]