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Re:The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the ... by Wowfunhappy on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:48AM (#20887231)
Latency could be significantly reduced with 5G, but would still be a problem if the operators are in other countries.

But, I think the bigger problem is coverage and reliability. Relying on mobile networks for this type of life-or-death functionality strikes me as extremely dangerous, and that would remain true even if we increased reliability by a factor of three.

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Re:The growing need for human robot-minders could juice the ... by grogenaut on Thursday September 05, 2019 @02:53PM (#20889698)
quick internet search says 5g is mainly a range of 1K, usa is 9.834 square km, yes this doesn't cover areas that have no roads but lets call it 1/4, that's still around 2.2M towers you'd have to add to make this feasible. Plus all the support infra. But hey at least we'll have power everywhere so we can put super chargers at every one of these towers!
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