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5G Technology: Is It Able to Make the Driverless Cars More Efficient

05.29.2019 · Posted in Writing and Speaking

“What 5G Technology can do? 5G provides human-like reflexes to the car to make autonomous driving cars safer and smarter.”


Who would have thought that the 5G technology which was invented? Higher internet speed? But can actually be used in making the driverless cars more efficient and superior?

The concept of a self-driving car is not the new one. After the initialization, it is growing exponentially since the past few years.

Giant companies involvement

Companies like Uber, Tesla, and Toyota have been testing of their autonomous vehicles, with the road in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Boston. Still, the growth has faced the skepticism while the Uber’s autonomous vehicle faced the accident. It arises the doubt in the people’s mind whether the autonomous vehicle is ready for the era or not.

With the help of 5G technology, cars will be the growth of self-driving cars. It will not just only make cars smarter but also faster.

The reason behind 5G technology

5G Technology provides human-like reflexes to the car to make autonomous driving cars safer and smarter.”

Who would have thought that the 5G technology which was invented to have higher internet speed? But actually, be used in making the driverless cars more efficient and superior?

The concept of a self-driving car is not the new one. After the initialization, it has been growing exponentially since the past few years. In fact, many companies like Uber, Tesla, and Toyota have initialized the testing of their autonomous vehicles on the road in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, and Boston. Still, the growth has faced the skepticism while the Uber’s autonomous vehicle faced the accident. It arises the doubt in the people’s mind whether the autonomous vehicle is ready for the era or not.

With the help of 5G technology, the cars will not just be smarter and safer but also will clear doubts regarding the growth of the self-driving cars. It will not just only make cars smarter but also faster.

The reason behind the question of how is 5G technology network has the capability to integrate the human-reflexes into the car. And it will not be similar to the 4G network which can only be used to share the status update and request the ride.

Even though the 5G network would take a few years to get adopted but its seem like its worth a wait.

With the 5G technological network connection, many of the astounding technologies would be in our grasps like virtual reality, smart cities, and artificial intelligence.

Progression of Networks

  • The first generation of cellular networks evolved in the early’s of the ’80s which offered the people to talk to each other.
  • The Second generation and the 2.5G network evolved in the early ’90s which invented the way and allowed the users to send text messages.
  • The evolvement of third generation networks gave the flexibility to access the broadband speed internet, varied communication, entertainment, and even easy shopping.
  • Evolving the 4G network allowed the people to share real-time information and location. This pushed the rise of the company like Uber which uses the real-time location of the customers.
  • Now here is the evolution of a 5G network with the average download speed of around 1GBps expected to soon be a benchmark. Currently, South Korea launched the first 5G network worldwide and it is assumed to launch it worldwide in 2020.

5G over 4G LTE

  • The biggest advantage of moving towards 5G unlike 4G LTE is it has more spectrum and uses more advanced radio technology. With this as a reason, 5G can download or upload anything faster than the 4G technology currently doing.
  • While 4G LTE technology depends on the large masts but the 5G needs only a huge volume of small cells which are closer to one another. These 5G base stations can be easily placed on the street lamps or at the side of the building without any hassles.
  • Moreover, 5G over the 4G LTE is a logical separation of a network for various purposes.
  • Currently, in the 4G network, a single 4G LTE network uses for all the applications. Although, 5G has a network separation capability which would allow separating a logical network only for the autonomous driving.

Contribution of 5G in Driverless Cars

Evolving 5G technology also brings advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, virtual reality and most importantly the internet of things (IoT). With the 5G technology, we will be able to connect every device around us to the network which can have a high speed and response.

To make the vehicles faster 5G uses the sensors to generate a huge volume. The current 4G network is not capable to handle, process and analyze. And that is the reason why we need 5G technology.

With the 5g technological network installations in the car, it will also help the car to detect not only other vehicles but other objects too. This is called as Vehicle to X communication. It’s predicted that the vehicular experience with the driverless cars would be similar to the manual one.

The concerns of the accidents are erased by using Vehicle-to-X communication and Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications.
Example

For instance, if a Car B suddenly comes in front of Car A. Then it’s a huge probability that a human feels scared. And gets the car out of control. In result, the accident occurs. Now if there are sensors in the driverless cars, car B’s would communicate with car A’s sensor. And helps them to make a decision. With these sensors decision, the speed of car B increases and for car A the speed decreases avoiding the collision.

Additionally, if the road conditions are not good, or a pedestrian or cyclist approach towards the car. And the sensors respond it accordingly. The 5G not only uses sensors but is involving mobile app development. This technology enables driving with safety and can get control over accidental incidents.


Ultimately,
The implementations of 5G technology in the autonomous driverless cars and the implementation of the sensors at all the important places is a time-consuming process. It’s an expensive one too at least to say. It just not only pave the way for autonomous cars but it also brings the technologies like smart cities, virtual reality mobile app development, and many more advances.

The revolution is worth the time to wait. With evolution, the support from the US and China towards the adoption of the 5G technology has made easy to reach towards the technology. With this, we can say that technology is not so far for worldwide adoption.

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