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clrmoney
1/31/2018 8:42:16 AM
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5G Approach with Open Mind
I think a lot of people are excited about what 5G has to offer you o make it easier for customer as well as businesses but some people don't like all this new age technology but it will be a plus for companies who use this service.
Re: 5G Approach with Open Mind
Software-driven networks and especially microservices will inevitably increase complexity. I also hear a lot about the need for tools to simplify operations. What are those tools? Not OSS/BSS since they don't work too well. The one I came across that sounds great is from VMware that supplements OSS/BSS. So what is the adoption of those tools and what are the results?
elizabethv
1/31/2018 9:19:08 AM
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Cars
"We did one experiment for connected cars with Ericsson and PSA. And we will show some results soon on that describe how to do a slice for vehicles ... I think it's a bit like smartphones because cars [also] are objects that are moving a lot. But we are still very far from real end-to-end implementation. The results also will depend on regulation: what is authorized and what is not authorized."
And this still scares the living day lights out of me. A friend of mine lives near a company (I completely forget which one) that creates automated cars. And they were testing it around his neighborhood. He commented on the creepiness factor of seeing a driver-less car. Smartphones don't kill people. Cars can. The whole thought is completely unnerving. This is maybe one aspect of advancing to 5G I'm not looking forward to. But they exist on 4G anyway.
Re: Cars
I think that driverless cars are likely to be safer than those with drivers. We just are used to the latter. Computers don't text while driving, drink and drive, read the newspaper while driving (I've seen it; the guy was going 50 MPH).
Re: Cars
@elizabethtv: Driverless cars are already safer than driven cars based on the humoungous volumes of test data companies like Google, Uber, and Tesla have gathered. In actual conditions, there are surprises and accidents happen which are overblown. If you go by statistics, the story is different from the news-driven brouhaha.
Re: Cars
@Kishore - I completely believe that driverless cars are safer - I think my hesitation comes from the unknown coupled with a little Orwellian type fear and a my control-freak tendencies. That said, I had zero interest in any kind of in-home assistant and yet my husband talked me into trying the Amazon Echo and now I actually enjoy having it around. Though my Orwellian fear is still very present, and I definitely have asked her if she's recording our conversations..... Her answer didn't convince me. :-)
Ariella
2/1/2018 9:27:24 AM
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Re: Cars
@elizabethv I'd think they'd be safer because they would not have their attention distracted, cannot end up driving under the influence, don't do stupid things just to show off or to prove they're not being cut off, would not speed or run a red light just to save a minute, etc. However, I suppose there is a fear that a car controlled by some other entity might be used against the person in it -- an idea used in several plots already.
afwriter
2/1/2018 12:24:43 PM
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Re: Cars
There are 2001: A Space Oddysey fears, but my trepidation at least for now is a little more tangible. How many times has your phone frozen for no apparent reason? Have you ever had a computer crash out of nowhere? Networks go down all the time and annoy people who rely on them. If any of that were to happen with a self-driving car the results could be catastrophic.
Ariella
2/1/2018 12:58:51 PM
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Re: Cars
@afwriter true, though one may argue that the same holds for the computers already built into cars for the past several decades. True, they don't have to be connected to larger networks, but their failures do render your care controls useless.
mhhf1ve
2/1/2018 2:07:16 PM
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Re: Cars
It should be pretty easy for driverless cars to be designed to just come to a safe stop if they're disconnected from a vital wireless network necessary for controlling the car. I'm guessing there will need to be legally-required backup systems in case the "autopilot" fails for whatever reason. Right now, the backup is a human driver, but I'm guessing a completely separate secondary autonomous co-pilot system may be needed -- just in case the primary autopilot suffers a "heart attack" -- aka critical malfunction.
batye
2/3/2018 12:52:11 AM
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Re: Cars
@mhhf1ve I do not know why but Tesla cars do remind me about 3 laws of robotics...
Re: Cars
@afwriter - That's a completely reasonable point. I would hope they could build some kind of "immediately stop car if it loses signal" safe-guard into the cars. Drivers of Tesla's are supposed to be ready to take the wheel at a moments notice. And I am positive that doesn't always happen. It tends to just be a human fact of life, once we feel safe we really drop our guard. "What are the chances....." are potentially some fairly common last words. Also, if the car is designed to immediately stop if it loses signal, other cars on the road that aren't driver-less might slam into you. It could become a pretty serious situation fairly quickly.
mhhf1ve
2/2/2018 11:47:19 PM
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Re: Cars
Teslas do come to a stop eventually when the driver stops interacting with the Autopilot system.. but recently, I think there was a drunk driver of a Tesla who found himself stopped on a bridge.
batye
2/3/2018 12:54:08 AM
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Re: Cars
@elizabethv the way I see it it would make sense to program safe stop in any case as any time contact/connection get lost...
elizabethv
2/28/2018 10:35:11 PM
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Re: Cars
@batye - That would actually make a lot of sense. It would also force the driver to start paying attention to the car and figure out how to move forward on the old fashioned way. The only thought that then concerns me is will people, in time, start to forget how to actually drive. Much the same way that many people no longer know how to a manual transmission.
batye
3/1/2018 12:58:16 AM
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Re: Cars
@elizabethv good point, but I say we living in the new age my wife 30 years ago could drive manual... now she could only drive automatic... or prefer during black ice time stay at home...
mhhf1ve
2/1/2018 2:03:57 PM
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Re: Cars
People aren't quite ready yet for driverless cars, IMHO. When a prankster dressed as a car seat to make it look like his car had no driver -- people *freaked out* at it.
http://archive.today/2018.02.01-184828/http://time.com/4890760/driverless-car-prank-car-seat-costume/
I assume this will pass -- just as "horseless carriages" have now become normal. But maybe we'll have to come up with a new name for "driverless cars" someday.
batye
2/3/2018 12:19:59 AM
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Re: Cars
@mhhf1ve thanks for the link interesting reading - the way I see it human nature is to resist change... same with changes in technology vs human nature...
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