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Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by ahains on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @03:08PM (#13368467)
Rather than a fallback driver having to physically enter the car, maybe they could take the drone pilot approach and control it remotely. There would be the latency to overcome, but the built in crash avoidance might be good enough for a relatively short/slow distance to exit the exceptional situation.
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Re:Let’s Talk About Self-Driving Cars by davnn on Tuesday January 10, 2017 @04:14PM (#13369069)
That's actually a really interesting idea - hand off driving to a remote person when the conditions are bad.

But would a car's connectivity and latency allow for that to be safe?

Edit: If not there would still be some form control needed for the passenger.

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