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Nissan's Path to Self-Driving Cars? Humans in Call Centers Remote operators could be the simple, scaleable answer to what Nissan says is an unsolvable problem: making robot drivers do everything humans can. https://www.wired.com/2017/01/nissans-self-driving-teleopera...

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Call centers barely handle simple requests. Why do I want a foreign driver handling my life and a $70k chunk of metal that I insure?

Especially handling not a stopped vehicle control, but the one ar speed of 30mph or more in an area of bad 4/5G coverage with huge latency.

Such an intervention can (and will) simply kill passengers.

Insurance helps a bit, but does not recover from death.

i suspect that these sorts of applications are driving the design of low latency, high bandwidth, line of sight 5g mmwave sidewalk cell towers.

that and their potential ability to do radio sensing to provide high resolution realtime maps of their environment.

As an engineer worked for more than 10 years in cellular telco area, I always feel a bit magic when the network data transfer works OK.

It's not rational, of course: just knowing how much things regularily goes wrong in a low-level net makes me feel that way.

it's always a shitshow underneath the abstraction, it seems...

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