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Do Waymo’s have Starlink or another satellite based provider backup? Otherwise, what do they if cell service goes down and they need to phone home for confirmation?

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Cell services is usually around for a while when power goes down.

I doubt they have more than that.

That seems like a major oversight. Adding Starlink wouldn’t add that much marginal cost.

It would encourage Starlink to put yet more crap into Low Earth Orbit and see them fill the atmosphere with barely understood pollutants.

Cell towers just need power to keep functioning, starlink adds no utility in an urban dense environment with fiber.

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