Imagine you’re developing an autonomous shuttle system for a college campus. In addition to being safe, it needs to be effective and efficient to get students to class on time.

AI makes autonomous vehicles innovative. Teleoperation makes them safe. They work hand in hand. It is the synergy not the replacement.

The data collected by a driverless car’s sensors has to get to the teleoperator nearly instantaneously if it’s going to be useful. The 5G network can make that happen.

As evidenced by this year’s CES, the industry is thinking of the move to full autonomy as an evolution, not a revolution.