We live and breathe car performance metrics like horsepower, lb-ft, zero-to-60 and lateral g’s. Terms such as kilowatt-hours—how much energy batteries can hold—is being added to the list as more electric vehicles are hitting the road. Now, with semi-autonomous cars starting to arrive, there’s a weird-sounding acronym we’ll need to know – FLOPS.
FLOPS? No, not those thin rubber soles for the beach. Rather, it represents how fast a car’s computer can calculate floating point...