siliconindia | | September 20188AUTONOMOUS CARS ARE COMING: RIGOROUS TESTING WILL MAKE AUTONOMOUS CARS SAFERBy Michael Reser, Business Development Director, Keysight TechnologiesCalifornia based Keysight Technologies is a one stop electronic and test measurement solutions provider to an array of electrical & communications organizations. I t is no secret that autonomous vehicle develop-ment is happening fast. After years of develop-ing enabling technologies, disparate systems in cars, road infrastructure, and traffic management centers are starting to come together on the road. Communications standards such as 5G and Wire-less Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) are un-der development, and cities are undergoing pilots to test and analyze the performance of these vehicles. It is not out of the question to assume that sometime soon, autono-mous vehicles will be ubiquitous on streets, ferrying peo-ple and goods from Point A to Point B with little or no human interaction.However, connectivity and getting these disparate technologies to work together in concert is the key to mak-ing driverless cars a reality. Extensive testing and the de-velopment of robust standards are needed to ensure safety, security, and convenience. The Need for Rigorous TestingAutomobiles are more complex than ever before, and au-tonomous vehicles will only work if they can reliably and securely communicate with other vehicles and infrastruc-ture. They need to make lightning quick decisions to avoid hazards, stay in their lane or simply navigate city streets. These complexities fan-out into the multiple high-speed communication systems that need to communicate with each other, requiring fast automotive wireless and wired communications systems to handle all that data.Given these complexities, multiple digital systems re-quire extensive test coverage. Radar, Lidar, and other sen-sor technologies collect enormous amounts of data from the environment while driving, and disseminate it to per-Rigorous testing of new autonomous vehicle technologies using a variety of testing tools can validate components from the physical layer (including electrical, timing, and many others.) to the application layerIN MY OPiNion
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