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Thinking at the scale of Musk's ambitions real quick, this makes a lot of sense. At Tesla: Think about every Tesla car worldwide being able to phone home with

Thinking at the scale of Musk's ambitions real quick, this makes a lot of sense. At Tesla: Think about every Tesla car worldwide being able to phone home with self-driving learning data. Being able to remote operate them in the 0.001% of cases where human intervention is neccessary, no matter whether in the Australian outback or the Alps (without "no network"). At SpaceX: Being able to communicate with every Mars-bound spacecraft 24/7 by laser transmission, without having to rely on NASA's expensive Deep Space Network.

andygates 9y ago
The antennas for this are the size of pizza boxes - which puts a question over the car connectivity. That's a lot of flat sky-facing surface to hide.
- yeldarb 9y ago
  They will be to start. But think about how big the first briefcase cell phones were. They’ll shrink over time.
- onion2k 9y ago
  Putting it on the roof (or the hood) in a color that matches the car would work well enough.