r input and making a response. Consider autonomous vehicles: if a pedestrian suddenly appears at a crosswalk, the car‚Äôs computer might only have a few hundred milliseconds to decide. There‚Äôs not enough time to send the image to the cloud and await a response.</li>
<li><strong>Economics</strong>: Cloud computing and communication are getting better and cheaper, but they still cost money‚Äîpossibly a lot of money, especially regarding video data. Edge computing reduces the amount of data that 