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