How bad boy
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If you're out of ground mobile phone coverage, you'll still be able to send emergency text messages (which you can do already in the latest iPhones), then call, and eventually internet.
Tesla are partnering with Starlink so that eventually all Teslas will be able to connect to high speed internet, which becomes very important for more advanced self driving, it means you'd be quite unlikely to be out of coverage.
One of the nice use cases it allows is more robust remote driving in areas that currently have poor mobile coverage. What will eventually happen is that certain areas will seamlessly switch over to a remote driver where conditions get too challenging, such as your standard Irish bohereen. Will allow "driverless" vehicles to operate in areas you think they couldn't, or to do things like manoeuvre in a busy cargo delivery area.
To achieve this will take pretty large phased array antennas and a bunch of other tech (such as digital beam forming and larger transparent phased array antennas, both of which exist but neither of which currently works well at the relevant frequencies..).
What it will also allow is for you to drive your car out on a night out, have a few scoops and let a combination of a driver in an office somewhere and the AI in your car drive your drunk ass home.
Starlink and Tesla are currently ahead in all of this, I know from direct experience that other car companies don't want to go near Starlink for this because of Musk.
