Cover Story " The technology exists to see well enough to sense 100 Tb/sec to enable zero preventable roadway deaths. " with radar, lidar is used for the long-range FoV. It relies on having multiple lasers and detectors looking at the same portion of the FoV to increase the signal-to-noise ratio and to improve the range while adding photon path diversity for higher reliability. Carefully designed laser pulse sequences can be used to boost the signal levels and detect and position multiple targets within a single voxel. Highly advanced AI edge processors are needed to track, analyze and interpret the blistering data flow from each sensor modality. SoC processors are high-end, very low power, dedicated silicon chips with semi-flexible architecture. They are the computational workhorses required to process the 100 Tb/s, and several tens of them will be required to work in parallel and in symphony. Finally, digital maps help us know when roads bend and slopes occur and provide clues to help focus on the voxels of greatest interest. Also, knowing where hills crest allows speeds to be safely adjusted to mitigate the risk of not being able to see over hills. Can vehicles sense 100 Tb/s? NPS has integrated three innovations to sense 100 Tb/s: * A new class of solid-state, longrange lidars that can detect a bicyclist next to a car at over 1000 meters * A new class of multi-band radars that can detect pedestrians at more than 500 meters in rain, snow and fog with very low false-positive frequency AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE ENGINEERING July 2022 7http://info.hotims.com/82340-702