A Match Made In Heaven For The Cloud And Autonomous Vehicles

A Match Made In Heaven For The Cloud And Autonomous Vehicles

There continues to be avid and growing adoption of the cloud for those involved in autonomous vehicles and the coming transformation of mobility and transportation.

Simply stated, the advent of autonomous vehicles is fueled by the use of the cloud.

The other side of that same coin is that the pace and viability of autonomous vehicles could be inadvertently dampened or hampered without utilizing cloud-based capabilities.

As readers of my column are aware, I've frequently covered various cloud-related facets in the arena of self-driving cars, a particular type of autonomous vehicle (see my coverage at this link here). In addition to self-driving cars, we will all be gradually witnessing the emergence of self-driving trucks, self-driving drones, self-driving planes, self-driving submersibles, self-driving surface ships, and so on.

That is a veritable boatload of self-driving vehicles and they all require gobs of online storage, tons of online computing power, and stridently need real-time accessibility at all times in all places.

The answer to providing that plethora of computing resources is found via harnessing the cloud.

Throughout my years as a global top executive and CIO/CTO, I've lived through the origins of cloud services and undertaken many enterprisewide conversions from internal and proprietary computing storage and computational processing cycles