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infra struc ture in place? Here's a
look at some of the most promising:

cuts down on the number of sharp hits
to the brakes.

Safer Streets

More Open Space

Experts speculate that early iterations of autonomous cars will hit
the road by 2020 [3]. The impact on
safety is one of the great promises
of autonomous technology: A recent
study by the Eno Center for Transportation predicts that when we reach
the point where 90 percent of cars in
the U.S. are autonomous, the number of accidents will fall from 6 million a year to about 1.3 million [4].
The enabler of this long-term vision:
data. Fully-realized AVs will rely on
a variety of cameras, sensors, and
radar to operate safely and will generate roughly 4 terabytes of data in
a typical day [5] of driving. Storage
plays a critical role in the cars of the
future to manage data systems such
as AV mapping and navigation, infotainment, telematics, accident/drive
recorders, digital clusters, vehicle-tovehicle (V2V)/vehicle-to-infractructure (V2I), advanced driver-assisted
systems (ADAS), and more.

Allocating space for parking is an essential but expensive part of doing
business in big cities. Roughly 31 percent of the space in the central business districts of 41 major cities is
currently dedicated to parking, and
a study by the Sightline Institute [7]
estimated that developers' costs for
parking increase average rent prices
by over $225/month nationwide in
the U.S. But data-driven autonomous
vehicles will shift those numbers dramatically. A professor of transportation engineering at the University of
Texas-Austin recently theorized that
if you shifted an entire city to autonomous cars, it would need 90 percent
less parking space [8] than it needs
today, and global consulting firm McKinsey and Company has speculated
that more AVs could open up 61 billion square feet of urban space [9]
we're currently using for parking spaces. Now imagine all that room opened
up for developments like libraries, museums, or even green space.

Reduced Traffic
The rise of autonomous vehicles is
also expected to lead to a dramatically
lighter load on city streets. Ridesharing is already an innovative and competitive multi-billion-dollar industry, but
experts predict that the rise of ridesharing with AVs and will mark another
step away from automobile ownership in dense metropolitan areas, and
less cars on the road. The AVs that do
brave the commute, meanwhile, will all
be gathering real-time data about traffic
and congestion and cutting down on
human habits that lead to stop-and-go
traffic jams. A recent study [6] from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for example, showed that the
presence of just one autonomous car
reduces the standard deviation in
speed of all the cars in a traffic jam by
nearly 50 percent, and dramatically

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We already know the benefits of
a society increasingly logged on and
driven by data.
It shapes how we work, who we
meet, and how we build our communities. But as our dependence on
mobile data increases, how we push
our cities forward into the future and
make them better places to live will
hinge on how we harness the information available all around us.

Author Information
Rui Costa is the CTO of Veniam,
www.veniam.com. Email: rcosta@
veniam.com.

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Cleaner Air
Studies have already shown that
autonomous vehicles and fewer cars
on the road will cut down on CO2 emissions, but there are other ways cities
can take advantage of mobile data
to clear up the air. Some cities have
already begun to implement mobile
sensors attached to devices or objects
that move throughout a city, and the
information gleaned has been stunning. The Environmental Defense
Fund has used data from vehicles to
create methane maps and identify
more than 5500 leaks in U.S. cities,
while a leading Internet mapping company has equipped its mapping and
imaging vehicles with an environmental intelligence platform with sensors
monitoring particulate matter, NO2,
CO2, black carbon, and more.
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