Volkswagen forms alliance to deal with flood of data from self-driving cars

Self-driving cars eventually won't need a human operator — but what the vehicles will need is a network powerful enough to handle the massive amount of data generated by their autonomous tech.

In order to ensure that network is as powerful as it needs to be, the Volkswagen Group of America — joined by four autonomous tech suppliers — formed the Networking for Autonomous Vehicles (NAV) Alliance on Tuesday. 

The newly formed group of autonomous tech industry leaders aims to develop products for self-driving cars that support multi-gig ethernet connectivity, allowing those vehicles to better handle the data overload from all the sensors, cameras, RADAR, LIDAR, ultrasound, and other equipment that allow them to operate on the road without human drivers.   Read more...