Maybe this is the answer:
https://www.motor1.com/news/744421/tesla-cybercab-driven-rem...
Maybe this is the answer:
https://www.motor1.com/news/744421/tesla-cybercab-driven-rem...
Also as a redundant connection so they don't have a meltdown like Waymo did when they lost cell signal.
> “In limited instances on Saturday night, the [robotaxi] Driver sought additional context,” the spokesperson wrote in an email. (The company refers to its cars’ autonomous driving systems as “Drivers.”) “However, the unprecedented scale of the power outage and its impact on local connectivity resulted in some delays to those confirmations.”
https://sfstandard.com/2025/12/23/wtf-happened-waymo-blackou...
Starlink latency, while better than most satellite data latency, is still far too long to be usable for remote control of a vehicle.