"Cell phones were overwhelmed, and as a result, they were not able to take control of these cars
Worrying that we’re making everything wireless, yet don’t have the spectrum space to actually support that.
IMO take a page out of China’s book and build dedicated 5G networks for this class of vehicle, to give them any chance of widespread success in an even more wireless future
which is a pretty frightening systemic defect
Defect… I don’t think so, they’re working as intended. The cars can’t move safely and are unreachable on the network, so the safest thing would be to stay put?
Requiring an always-on connection isn’t feasible for vehicles. The breakdown here occurred in a major city with plenty of coverage and there are also many parts of the US with zero cellular coverage.
I assume the cars machine vision is done locally (“on the edge”) so stopping in the middle of the road is not the only option available for a “loss of connection” failure mode, and it is very undesirable. They could absolutly use their self driving and gps to navigate back to whatever box the company puts them in when they are not in use.
Worrying that we’re making everything wireless, yet don’t have the spectrum space to actually support that.
IMO take a page out of China’s book and build dedicated 5G networks for this class of vehicle, to give them any chance of widespread success in an even more wireless future
Defect… I don’t think so, they’re working as intended. The cars can’t move safely and are unreachable on the network, so the safest thing would be to stay put?
Requiring an always-on connection isn’t feasible for vehicles. The breakdown here occurred in a major city with plenty of coverage and there are also many parts of the US with zero cellular coverage.
I assume the cars machine vision is done locally (“on the edge”) so stopping in the middle of the road is not the only option available for a “loss of connection” failure mode, and it is very undesirable. They could absolutly use their self driving and gps to navigate back to whatever box the company puts them in when they are not in use.