Autonomous Vehicles

Today, almost every car company is advancing technology in their cars using Autonomous Vehicle (AV) systems and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). This covers everything from cruise control to several safety features and fully autonomous driving that you are all probably familiar with. If you are not familiar with these concepts, we encourage you to take the following crash course – test drive a car with fully autonomous capabilities to appreciate the technology and sophistication involved in building these kinds of systems. Companies that are currently heavily investing in AV and ADAS systems require heavy computational resources to test, simulate, and develop related technologies before deploying them in their cars. Many companies are turning to the cloud when there is a need for on-demand, elastic compute for these large-scale applications. The previous chapters have covered storage, network, and computing, and introduced ML in general.

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