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“That situation” was loss of contact with a control center. What is the equivalent for people?

• dronescanfly 9y ago
  fainting. I do believe braking and stopping is better than swerving and crashing...
  • dwighttk 9y ago
    no, there isn't a person constantly driving on the other end of the connection
• CDRdude 9y ago
  Perhaps dense fog, or whiteout blizzard conditions? I’m making the assumption that the server parses the data from the truck to determine what it is seeing.
  • winthrowe 9y ago
    No, those are sensor failures, not external communications failures. The human equivalent would be being unable to call someone for directions.
  • Maybestring 9y ago
    The article says it's a person making decisions with acceptable delays of 15 seconds.