Comment by solidsnack9000

9 days ago

I wonder where the remote drivers are? If they were in Vegas, latency could be very low -- but if they are in Berlin...

They wouldn't be in Berlin, you want to go to cheaper labor places than Las Vegas, which are plentiful in the US, and even more plentiful in Mexico if you want reasonably low latency to the US.

I'd be more concerned about the remote driver's internet connection crapping out. The car probably has multiple simultaneous cellular connections (e.g. PepLink SpeedFusion hot failover type thing).

It’s not merely about latency, but you also need to consider that any ‘remote driver‘ will have less telemetry, and of a lower quality, than an onboard AI driver.

A human operator wouldn’t even be able to read or interpret the types of data which would be collected and sent by a vehicle such as a FSD Tesla or a Waymo.

Now as I understand it, military forces are really good at remotely operated drones/UAVs so perhaps the tech does exist in parallel, but those are two distinct applications.