I think if they presented it in an alarmist way, it would probably be dismissed early by the academic community as anti-5G propaganda?
self-driving cars/etc, more integrated city infra cannot happen without 5G, way too much money on the line.
Come to think of it, a vanishingly small and steadily-shrinking percentage of cell phone users hold their phones up to their heads, these days, too, so really, it's hard to see the relevance of this research.
I barely even use my iPhone as a phone, at all, these days, let alone in a baroque fashion like holding it up to my head.
What do you mean? We basically have the first prototype of self driving cars already and what city infrastructure works on 5G but not 4G?
as for self driving cars, fully 3D mapped city roads will be eventually needed to improve ride quality, and they will be constantly uploaded/downloaded by vehicles.
Here is one example: https://www.clearmotion.com/
"This “digital chassis” consists of four electro-hydraulic “activalves” installed on the shock absorbers at each wheel, and it collects and stores road data in the cloud for analysis and retrieval at a later date."
more use cases, more data, etc etc.
This sounds terrible for a lot of other reasons, but anyway. It sounds like they want to rely on collected data about roads which is great, but cars still have to have safety measures for pedestrians/unexpected obstacles like trucks or new road issues.
5G would improve this but I still don't see how it's necessary. Even now it sounds like it's collecting data and uploading it on WiFi or something later. I'd be surprised if it was too much data for 4G.
there’s a lot of chicago that is really ambiguous about being one or two lanes, you just kind of cross your fingers and hope everyone else also has a fear of death (this is why i dont trust ai, no fear of death in em)
The control of a vehicle is never going to be performed over an RF link like 5G.
What is suggested for self-driving is higher level traffic management which is more "advisory" and is non-critical (think "waze" or google maps).
Control will not happen over 5G, but the volumes of data being passed around certainly will likely require a good amount of bandwidth.
Do you see this happen over LTE?
Idk. maybe its not cars, but simply a much better surveillance system somehow.