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> What is ethernet bringing to the picture?

Over 3 orders of magnitude faster datarates.

CAN FD: up to 5Mb/s

Automotive Ethernet: up to 10 Gb/s



Why would you need 10 Gb/s speeds in a car


FSD will benefit from high-resolution (4K or above) camera feeds (for things like reading signs and detecting small obstacles). You can do this in a 10Gbps network and have tons of headroom for every other function the car will perform.


Why would you not? Tesla is sending even the infortainment data stream through that bus. It's incredibly helpful having all data travel on a singular wire because you can tap in at one point and read it all out. Makes the entire system significantly easier to debug, understand and develop against.


And hack/steal, right?


10 Gb/s is not all that much for cameras. Enough for one 60 Hz 4k 14-bit depth camera transmitting raw bayer data.

60 Hz * 3840 * 2160 * 14bit is 6.96 Gbps.


It's a good thing we invented video compression and hardware codecs/encoders a long time ago.

What you'll actually be sending is a high bitrate mpeg stream, probably 54Mbps or thereabouts, you could probably fit 50x camera streams on a shared 10Gbps bus.




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