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The 5 reasons autonomous vehicles are not smartphones on wheels

Eva Rio is product manager at Tuxera, a provider of embedded storage software for consumer electronics, connected & autonomous cars, and enterprise markets.

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Eva Rio

October 16, 2020 04:00 AM

Software is now one of the main drivers of technological development in the automotive world as cars become much more than a means of transportation as the advance of autonomous driving turns them into complex machines that collect and process large amounts of data.

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