Paper Title: Autonomous Vehicles: Direction, Growth, and Challenges

Paper Abstract: The overview for the safety/security panel is: The primary motivating forces for getting humans from behind the steering wheel of tomorrow's vehicle is to reduce, if not eliminate, the approximately 1.3 million deaths on the world's highways/byways today; reduce the volume of vehicles on the road; and significantly reduce vehicles' environmental impact . Fast, reliable in-vehicle and ecosystem communications/data storage will be a key component in meeting that goal. Data in tomorrow's vehicles must be 100 percent reliable, available and instantly provided to the various decision-making systems in the new moving environment. How will we design, develop and use storage redundancy, "soft fail" solutions that can protect passengers and those around them as well securely handle the constant flow of accurate information and vehicle upgrades/enhancements while the vehicle is in motion.

Paper Author: Andrew Wygle, Embedded Software Engineer specializing in data programming of Flash devices., Data I/O

Author Bio: Andrew Wygle joined Data I/O in July 2018 as an embedded software engineer, bringing to the company his unique expertise in embedded systems architecture. Prior to Data I/O, Andrew served as the co-founder of Adamant Aerospace, a bootstrapped small business providing avionics to the emerging small satellite market. Previously, he served as the lead engineer for RF Communications at Planetary Resources, a small satellite company in Redmond, WA targeting the extraction of valuable resources from near-Earth asteroids. Andrew has a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.