What are the benefits of dynamic charging?

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How will automakers ensure that vehicle software is patched and or updated on a regular basis for security purposes?

It is important not to confuse customers with too many choices and options to maintain the software. The process must be simple and intuitive. The expectation with autonomous vehicles is that software updates must take care of itself in all aspects. Autonomous automakers can adapt mechanisms used in the aerospace industry for monitoring airplane engines or something similar to that. Systems should also be set for auto-updated patches at defined time slots.

Are self-driving cars more sustainable?

Absolutely, self-driving cars will be more efficient than traditional ones. Users will be able to input a destination, and the car will calculate the most fuel-efficient route to get there, taking traffic jams and road conditions into account.

What are some of the challenges of securing autonomous vehicles?

Vehicles are equipped with increasingly diverse connectivities, such as short range interfaces, Bluetooth, cell interfaces like 5G, as well as vehicle-to-everything and vehicle-to-vehicle interfaces. These wireless technologies work at very different frequencies and follow different standards. How to protect them from cyber and physical attacks in a holistic manner is a major challenge.

Guoliang Xing IEEE Fellow, IEEE Communications Society

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