Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (00:07):
Paul, what is a Mustang EV doing at Wind River?

Paul Miller, Wind River (00:12):
Yes, it's quite interesting. We have a partnership here with our parent company, Aptiv. You can see the logo down here on the car, which is a tier one supplier in the automotive industry. And then a partnership with one of our major customers, Verizon, with Verizon Business, with a service they call Verizon ETX. What that does is it allows IoT devices such as automobiles to communicate through the 5G network and share information. So what we've done is we've modified this vehicle with a technology called C-V2X. That means cellular vehicle-to-everything. What that does is we allow the sensors in this car—cameras, radar systems that are detecting human beings, cyclists around the vehicle—to now send that information through the 5G network to another vehicle. So we actually have the sensors from another car around the corner. As you can see here in the video behind me, these are the cars driving on the streets in Michigan, actually avoiding accidents by being able to see through buildings.

(01:08):
So instead of the vehicle being dependent on its own sensors, it can use the sensors from another vehicle in real time to make driving decisions. This will dramatically increase driver safety. It will increase comfort and convenience features in the car. There are hundreds of applications. Now that the vehicles are more software-defined, they become like computers on a network. So we should have them connected together and sharing their information. What you're seeing on the screen behind me is what we call a sensor fusion view. This is a data stream from this vehicle where it's seeing all the people walking around here. The blue boxes are from another car, the sensors we have behind the wall here pointing in a different direction. So this car is seeing not only what its sensors can see, but also other sensors from other vehicles—cellular vehicle-to-everything.

(01:55):
The notable thing about this is it is actually heavily populated with AI, edge AI and physical AI. It follows a pattern of sense, think, act, where the sensing is happening on the vehicle, the thinking is happening through cloud-based AI applications, and the act is the final vehicle avoiding an accident and changing its routing based on this information. So it's a significant system-level implementation that we've built with Verizon and Aptiv.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (02:23):
And it makes me a lot more comfortable about autonomous vehicles

Paul Miller, Wind River (02:26):
When

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (02:26):
They have that safety as well.

Paul Miller, Wind River (02:28):
Yes. And Aptiv, our parent company, is one of the primary suppliers of ADAS self-driving solutions for vehicles. It's in many of the vehicles that we've all been in. This is the next generation of that capability by networking cars and sharing data between them.

Clarence Reynolds, TelecomTV (02:41):
Paul, this is very interesting. Thank you.

Paul Miller, Wind River (02:43):
Certainly. Thanks.