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I saw this mention of self-driving cars a couple of times in these comments. I'm pretty sure you don't want your self driving technology to rely on 5G connectio
by spi 5y ago
I saw this mention of self-driving cars a couple of times in these comments. I'm pretty sure you don't want your self driving technology to rely on 5G connection, otherwise a sudden unexpected drop in connection quality (an antenna down for maintenance, an unmapped tunnel, an exceptionally crowded area due to a demonstration with lots of people streaming video, etc.) would also reduce the quality of transmission and maybe make the connection just impossible. What would happen in that case?
I think a "local" network-free source of computing is unavoidable, and once it is available, I just don't see the point of setting up a complicated (and error-prone) infrastructure to make computations remotely when it is available and fall back on-the-fly when not. Given the amount of regulation this kind of things have to comply to, and how error-proof they must be, I wouldn't think anybody would be happy with this cascade approach...
- 01acheru 5y agoI don't think the parent is saying that this remote computation is to be used for the actual driving, but that data can be sent home to have more usage patterns, to have data about edge scenarios and stuff like that.
- bin_bash 5y agomy car might want to connect to traffic signals to get an idea of when they'll be turning green or communicate with the car next to me to let them know I'm changing lanes in front of them