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And it gets way more interesting when every care itself is a cluster, or node of sensors, and all of these sensors of the same type can form telemetry fabrics o
by samstave 5y ago
And it gets way more interesting when every care itself is a cluster, or node of sensors, and all of these sensors of the same type can form telemetry fabrics of all the families of sensor-types across the nodes.
Each a plane, and then ultimately being able to see the relationships of patterns of sensor groups. I wonder how that information will become useful?
- rbanffy 5y agoFirst use could be to model traffic patterns - as undoubtedly all online mapping apps already do. As the meshes get denser, the cars can become aware of traffic patterns around them and make decisions in a coordinated way, forming "trains" to reduce drag in highways, for instance. Eventually enough data is gathered that we have predictive models for traffic jams and accidents and can act to prevent them.
- samstave 5y agoexactly
- astrange 5y agoThis seems fanciful - "if it'd work so well, why don't we already do it" is a real point against it. I think people imagining this are forgetting problems with communications overhead, trusting each other, and how much it'd actually be useful. What we do have are realtime traffic alerts and Waze, and presumably a robot car could use those as well as we do.