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Re:Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform by dbcurtis on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @07:55PM (#14801045)
The autonomous racing league that meets in Oakland is doing exactly that. Typically the R/C car uses wifi to connect back to an AWS instance for the heavy lifting.
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Re:Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform by jnbiche on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:17PM (#14801409)
> Typically the R/C car uses wifi to connect back to an AWS instance for the heavy lifting.

Wow, and the latency is manageable for the task?

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Re:Apollo – An open autonomous driving platform by koffiezet on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @05:29AM (#14802997)
Well, the average human reaction time is 215ms, which would be considered unacceptable in online-gaming, where 50ms would already be on the high side of things, I normally see 30ms or so.

Let's assume 50ms or 20 updates per second, and a car driving at 40m/s or about 145kmh / 90mph, the reaction time of the of the computer is after the car moved 2 meters (about 6.5 feet). A human would only react after about 8.5 meters (about 28 feet) - quite the difference.

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