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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by valine on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:04AM (#20182264)
I feel like losing cell signal is more common than having a heart attack.
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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by foobarian on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:24AM (#20182731)
I feel there are good mitigating options here:

- they could use vehicle-mounted transceivers with much better antennas

- they could use redundant transceivers on different networks

- they could map out routes with best signal. Remember this is last mile only, so it's not a huge area. Instead of going the shortest way a la Waze, optimize the route for best signal.

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Re:Starsky Robotics Becomes First Uncrewed Truck to Hit 55 MPH by tintor on Friday June 14, 2019 @01:40PM (#20184934)
It is not just loosing cell signal completely, but even smaller latency increase can make teleoperation much less reliable.
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