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Autonomous vehicles, which have started cruising the streets of major cities, offer a long list of benefits, including safer streets, more efficient use of vehicles leading to less congestion, increased mobility for seniors, and more. Data collection and analysis speeds are again critical, especially as vehicles analyze data on roads crowded with other cars, bikes, pedestrians, and traffic lights. It is also important that such technologies leverage the cloud (where data from multiple sources can be stored and analyzed) but also make “local” decisions without the latency caused by transmitting data to and from the cloud (this is called the “intelligent cloud/intelligent edge” model).

At the same time, we will be presented with new risks as the technology matures and perhaps comes under attack. Indeed, as of December 17, 2018, the California Department of Motor Vehicles had received 124 Autonomous Vehicle Collision Reports, and there have been reports of researchers hacking automated vehicles. Still, while autonomous vehicles may not be completely “safe,” they will, if correctly designed, undoubtedly be “safer”: Autonomous vehicles can process data far more quickly than humans, they will not panic in an emergency situation, and they are unlikely to be distracted by cell phones.