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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by londons_explore on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @05:21PM (#13171703)
No need for high speed - all these issues can be resolved by inching forward or back to get the car back onto the open road. (although obviously high speed is a bonus)

Connectivity you see is from a single mobile phone. A car could have a better antenna, service from all the mobile networks rather than just one, wifi fallback and a backup satellite uplink. If all those fail, you dispatch an engineer to find the car wherever it's stuck and add a solar powered LTE repeater.

If you have a map of the whole service area and know where you started and have a camera looking out the window the whole time, there is no need for GPS really.

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Re:Waymo: Google's self-driving car company by EdHominem on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @12:50PM (#13178004)
It might even be the sort of thing where you tap the video of the street ahead to tag the bag as passable and the car then slowly drives through it. No remote guidance per-se.

Considering these are car companies doing this, true remote control is not a good idea. The industry response to the car hacks was pathetic. Only Tesla reacted properly. (And probably Google...)

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