[CamperBob2]

You laugh, but I've always thought that would have been a good intermediate step towards full self-driving. Provide the option to delegate it to humans in a building 1000 miles away, similar to how the US military conducts drone warfare.

[TacticalCoder]

Latency makes it totally impossible to do that securely. Reaction times in case of a problem is the difference between life and dead and you cannot "outsource" that to someone 1000 miles away: network latency, monitor latency, input method latency (I send an "emergency braking order", network latency a second time.

Impossible within our current understanding of physics: I mean... You could do it, but the added delay for reaction times would literally have many people killed.

Guiding a drone / missile is kiddie stuff compared to remotely driving a car in trafic.

[CamperBob2]

There are workarounds for that -- think satellite service augmented by local pseudolites -- at least until the customer drives into a tunnel without said pseudolites. At that point you'd fall back to a limited self-driving model like what many cars have today.

Agreed that it isn't something you could do solely over the public Internet.

[javajosh]

Yeah I wasn't expecting real time control, but rather high-level objectives and alterations to the self-driving module. E.g. "hit the next pedestrian lol" or "swerve into oncoming traffic lmao". Chat wouldn't actually execute these directives.