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5G’s big role in driving expansion of autonomous vehicles

 An autonomous 5G-connected bus, operated by the Korean telecom KT Corp., travels during a 2018 media event in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, South Korea. Instead of windows, the self-driving shuttle bus has interior video screens that display live coverage of events in 5G and uses 5G to navigate the roads.
An autonomous 5G-connected bus, operated by the Korean telecom KT Corp., travels during a 2018 media event in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, South Korea. Instead of windows, the self-driving shuttle bus has interior video screens that display live coverage of events in 5G and uses 5G to navigate the roads.

Fifth-generation cellular network technology, better known as 5G, is likely to play a major role in whether self-driving vehicles truly gain traction on a large scale. IT research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. predicts that by 2025, autonomous vehicles will upload more than 1 terabyte of vehicle and sensor data per month to the cloud, up from 30 gigabytes of data from advanced connected cars in 2018.