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Call centers barely handle simple requests. Why do I want a foreign driver handling my life and a $70k chunk of metal that I insure?

• zx8080 3y ago
  Especially handling not a stopped vehicle control, but the one ar speed of 30mph or more in an area of bad 4/5G coverage with huge latency. Such an intervention can (and will) simply kill passengers. Insurance helps a bit, but does not recover from death.
  • a-dub 3y ago
    i suspect that these sorts of applications are driving the design of low latency, high bandwidth, line of sight 5g mmwave sidewalk cell towers. that and their potential ability to do radio sensing to provide high resolution realtime maps of their environment.
    • zx8080 3y ago
      As an engineer worked for more than 10 years in cellular telco area, I always feel a bit magic when the network data transfer works OK. It's not rational, of course: just knowing how much things regularily goes wrong in a low-level net makes me feel that way.
      • a-dub 3y ago
        it's always a shitshow underneath the abstraction, it seems...