[eru]

Satellite internet is fast becoming good enough and cheap enough.

As an additional safeguard, you can make your trucks go into 'safety' mode when connection becomes spotty or when too many operators become too busy with other trucks.

'Safety mode' could mean slowing down the trucks or even stopping some of them. And in general, letting the autonomous systems err on the side of caution more often.

[kevinchen]

I believe the MTBF argument still applies to Starlink.

Regarding the minimal risk condition / fallback behavior, a central point of the article was that slowing or stopping are almost always unacceptable on freeways because of the speeds involved

[eru]

You wouldn't want to stop suddenly as your fallback behaviour, when too many operators are busy.

[rdtsc]

A centralized control like that coupled with a stop as a safe default would be a very juicy attack target. Want to cripple a city / country or create some chaos? Just jam or hack the control system.

[eru]

You can already try to jam GPS, and many people will be lost.

But jamming GPS is both highly illegal, and a high powered jammer is relatively easy to track down.