And that sounds easy, but doing it efficiently is tremendously complex. A quite suitable example is that of mobile phones. There are many mobile phone manufacturers, but they all connect to each other and can share information.
What users do not see, and surely do not even think about, is the enormous amount of technology that exists “below” (between the systems, the operating companies, etc.) so that the billions of mobile phones that work in the world can share information.
And in the case of cars, that complexity rises to higher power. Because cars (and the traffic of the future) will do what cell phones do today, plus many other functions to increase driver safety.
Modern cars have many semi-autonomous driving features, and some will one day be even more autonomous. And all this is achieved based on many sensors to capture data, and placing a large computer with powerful hardware and very powerful software in each vehicle.
I have read somewhere that a state-of-the-art aircraft like the F-35 has in its on-board computer on the order of 8 million lines of program. By comparison, a modern car already has several million program lines, and the complexities continue to increase.
The car within the “Internet of Things” that is already beginning to be seen is like a “box” full of software, so that this new world they are telling us about is capable of intercommunicating.
I am very clear that as time goes by, driving and traffic will become safer, and that will be good because according to the World Health Organization, 1.3 million people die from traffic problems every year. That means 3,700 deaths a day, and makes traffic accidents the main cause of death among young people between 15 and 29 years old.
Traffic is a complex problem that affects all countries and cities around the world. Congestion, pollution and safety are just some of the challenges that need to be addressed.
Interconnection between vehicles is an emerging technology that has the potential to address many of these challenges. Interconnection allows vehicles to communicate with each other, with infrastructure and with services.
But despite the potential benefits, vehicle interconnection also poses some challenges. One of the challenges is the development of common standards that allow different systems to communicate with each other.
And another challenge is the implementation of these standards. Existing systems can be difficult to update to make them interoperable.
And finally, we cannot forget the problem of citizens' privacy. Cars collect a multitude of data, and much of it is from the users. Protecting our privacy should be a “must”.
What also seems very clear to me is that software companies are going to continue to have a lot of work, although I don't know how much of it will be done by AI systems.
Technologies, dear friends, change a lot!!
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