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Re:The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering ci... by robszumski on Monday April 28, 2014 @02:21PM (#7661890)
These cars will almost certainly be sharing what they've learned about the road with each other. The hard part of this is the mobile data network required to share high resolution LIDAR or other sensor data with many cars. The fact that roads are constantly changing makes it even harder.

Puts the balloon/UAV based internet projects a little bit more into perspective.

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Re:The latest chapter for the self-driving car: mastering ci... by BrandonMarc on Monday April 28, 2014 @06:07PM (#7663438)
why not (mostly) a mesh network made up of the individual cars themselves, with a few connecting to the actual internet and acting in a sense like mobile cell towers? the cars would probably vote on which one in a vicinity was going to be come the next "hub" based on some algorithm accounting for location of surrounding cards, location of its own access point, as well as info about its likely route & destination.

Why not let the cars can talk to eachother, and through eachother to the outside world?

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