Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems, 5th Edition

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Outside of cities, where vehicles travel at higher speeds, there is a denite

advantage if data takes the short route via the local cloud. Compared to

solutions that exchange information via a central cloud, local cloud approaches

are at least three times faster, and they have much lower variances in the case

of vehicle-to-vehicle latencies under 2 ms. In some situations, this can make

the difference as to whether the information reaches the car on time and the

driver or the safety function can react quickly enough.

15.9.3 Hacking

The interconnectivity of current and future vehicles makes them potential

targets for attack. ...