I mean. We’ve all heard the marketing bs from the telcos that 5g opens up these possibilities. No engineer, worth the title, would be naive enough to actually believe that and put tire slip control into an rpc call...going over wireless. For real, does anyone actually believe this is a good idea?
There are things worth putting on remote systems, but none of them need real time response or matter for safety.
I work for John Deere (of course do not speak for them), we want to analyze things 'on the cloud', but we are thinking about how to apply the results of data we gather latter. Already it is so the coop sprayer that comes in 2 months knows where the rows really are so it can figure out the most efficient path to drive their field and drive over the least crop. There are also what do I do in this field next year decisions that can be driven by data, and it is nice to not have to take some form of memory device to the tractor.
Companies with trucks are interested in things they can get from connected vehicles. Insurance also is interested to see if they can find the good drivers and give them better rates (governments probably want to force training on bad drivers or something). None of the above is real time critical.
Impossible (unfortunately) for reasons of privacy.
> No engineer ... naive
Your mistake is to imply that the "drive" lies with engineers - instead of a perverse economy in which some try to promote unneeded novelties to "have something new to sell - to people who already have everything". This was directly admitted by the involved.
> a good idea
Given the above, some believe it a potentially good idea "for the stockholders" (not for "function", as you seem to assume as a perspective).
I mean. We’ve all heard the marketing bs from the telcos that 5g opens up these possibilities. No engineer, worth the title, would be naive enough to actually believe that and put tire slip control into an rpc call...going over wireless. For real, does anyone actually believe this is a good idea?