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This recent article shown below in wired.com reinforces the comments by Louis regarding the importance of power savings that will be delivered by our patented SNN tech in AKIDA and the Accelerator in autonomous vehicles ADAS.

Self Driving Cars are using crazy amounts of power and it's becoming a problem

Today's self-drivers don't need extra engines, but they still use terrific amounts of power to run their onboard sensors and do all the calculations needed to analyze the world and make driving decisions. And it's becoming a problem.

A production car you can buy today, with just cameras and radar, generates something like 6 gigabytes of data every 30 seconds. It's even more for a self-driver, with additional sensors like lidar. All the data needs to be combined, sorted, and turned into a robot-friendly picture of the world, with instructions on how to move through it. That takes huge computing power, which means huge electricity demands. Prototypes use around 2,500 watts, enough to light 40 incandescent light bulbs.

“To put such a system into a combustion-engined car doesn’t make any sense, because the fuel consumption will go up tremendously,” says Wilko Stark, Mercedes-Benz's vice president of strategy. Switch over to electric cars, and that draw translates to reduced range, because power from the battery goes to the computers instead of the motors.

https://www.wired.com/story/self-driving-cars-power-consumption-nvidia-chip/

Looking forward to the early Announcement of our hardware Accelerator being shipped to Detroit.