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Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t... by vanderZwan on Saturday October 05, 2019 @08:51AM (#21165223)
The thing is that you have to look at this from the perspective of the expected largest difference between different cars, not one speedometer and actual speed.

If two cars both say they drive at 50 km/h, and one is actually 45 km/h and the other 55 km/h, that is quite a bit relative margin of error. And we only need two cars like that in the whole group to start causing problems.

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Re:Google Is Uncovering Hundreds of Race Conditions Within t... by SECProto on Saturday October 05, 2019 @10:08PM (#21169369)
But I don't think you have to look that hard at some technical error causing this variance. Drivers speeds vary between 40 and 60 pretty regularly on residential roads. Having a speedometer error doesn't even have to enter into the conversation.

If you can't design a green wave to be tolerant of varying speeds, then it isn't useful.

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