The Importance of Autonomous Driving Using 5G Technology
This addresses the challenge of enabling safer and more efficient autonomous driving for the automotive and transportation industries, but it is incremental as it builds on existing 5G advancements.
The paper tackles the problem of autonomous driving commercialization being delayed by high latency and low reliability in networks, arguing that 5G technology can greatly improve latency and reliability for autonomous vehicles and Intelligent Transport Systems.
The three keys to autonomous driving are sensors, data integration, and 100% safety decisions. In the past, due to the high latency and low reliability of the network, many decisions had to be made locally in the vehicle. This puts high demands on the vehicle itself, which results in the dilatory commercialization of automatic driving. With the advent of 5G, these situations will be greatly improved. In this paper, we present the improvements that 5G technology brings to autonomous vehicles especially in terms of latency and reliability amongst the multitude of other factors. The paper analyzes the specific areas where 5G can improve for autonomous vehicles and Intelligent Transport Systems in general (ITS) and looks forward to the application of 5G technology in the future.