Automotive AI: A wellspring of data innovation?

In the coming years, there are few parts of daily life that artificial intelligence won't touch in one way or another, and the automotive sector is no exception. When it comes to vehicles, however, implementing AI will place enormous demands on data centre technology. Christian Ott, director of Solution Engineering at NetApp, explores how storage and compute can keep pace with the challenge. Usually, when you mention the idea of applying AI in the automotive sector to someone, their first thought is self-driving cars. In the current wave of research and development in autonomous vehicles (AVs), it's estimated that the leading thirty companies have invested $16 billion into building a car that can take itself from A to B, and, as we all know, that technology hasn't arrived just yet.