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Automated driving will make collective decision making more plausible. For example, individual cars and particularly trucks outfitted with a coupling mechanism
by wrnr 6y ago
Automated driving will make collective decision making more plausible. For example, individual cars and particularly trucks outfitted with a coupling mechanism to form chains in order to reduce drag when driving on the highway.
- jonplackett 6y agoWouldn't it make more sense for them to connection locally somehow? Via wifi or something, rather than that go through a 5G tower, which might not have signal at that point anyway?
- wrnr 6y agoStill, you'll need network for authentication and receive push notification in case of rerouting, maybe public key crypto can help in some cases but network is always useful. Also to stream Netflix to bored passengers or zoom while zooming about.
- jonplackett 6y agoNetflix+Zoom for all the bored passengers is the single best answer I've heard to date about why this is needed! You really might need 5G (rather than 4G) for 5X Netflix streams.
- baybal2 6y agoYou don't need collective decision making if you can just run something like an air trafic control for cars, and do it using a computer. If you do so, the ennormous technical challenge of SLAM, and route planning becomes redundant, and obviated, completely removing the need in some magic AI. But you can do so with a cheap, and reliable UHF link, and not a fancy 5G modem.
- mycall 6y agoImagine weaponizing the platooning feature using remote C&C mesh-swarms. It will have to be limited in features with regulation to prevent that from happening.
- wrnr 6y agowhat do you mean, like linking many trucks as a type of kinetic bomb. Haven't thought about security implications, but that might be one. Safety is defiantly a reason to have some oversight over what the swarm is doing.