How can a car maker solve bandwidth issues? They don't own the networks. These companies can be as efficient as possible but if everyone else on the pipe and downloading gigs of porn it doesn't matter. Again, look at a football games, you can't send texts messages (160 measly bytes) because everyone else is saturating the network. All internet traffic isn't and shouldn't be treated equally.
Find another way to communicate. It matters none to me if the execs at GM, Ford, Apple, Google, Tesla, whoever else might be working towards or have ideas of developing this technology are able to line their pockets or not based on this technology. Take some of that gazillions of dollars we hear about the higher ups getting paid in these big corporations and put some of it into research.
Also, do you want the autonomous vehicle in the lane next to you doing 70 mph using the same network as the webcam set up in the truck stop at exit 4?
This doesn't make any sense. What you're saying is analogous to refusing to move over to the side of the road to let an ambulance or fire truck through and telling them if they'd only invent teleportation it wouldn't be a problem.
Everyone is on the same internet. It doesn't matter if you're interfacing through Comcast, Sprint, Verizon, Charter, etc. it all goes to the same backbone.
Not really. Just because we clog up the highway doesn't mean we can't build another road. Can you explain exactly why self-driving cars must be connected? My current vehicle is capable of slowing on its own, stopping on its own, and performing some steering on its own, and it is not connected to the net. That's a far cry from self-driving, but it's got many of the basic tools needed.
Networks will continue to expand, and more data will ride on those networks and there will always be data that's more important than your cell phone. Prioritization of certain data is common sense. Why must self driving cars be connected? Probably for the same reason you need to communicate with other vehicles, communicating to change lanes, traffic congestion, GPS, reduce drag, optimize speed, swarm theory, etc. These are all things autonomous systems can do better, faster, and safer than you or me.
Read something disturbing about the possibility of the automation of management. Imagine working for an algorithm.
We've been on this road for some time. I've mentioned before how automation has crept into the gray and white collar space. In this space it's not about machines, but data and algorithms. We're collecting so much data today, and by 'much' I mean quantity, quality and variety. Data fuels AI and we've become really good at compiling data. Think about some of the key functions of managers. Tasks involving organizing work, measuring against objectives and even decision making are all ripe for automation. Many (most?) management decisions today are data-driven so it makes complete sense to investigate letting AI do the same thing while better utilizing data faster and with higher quality (arguable).
All a 'manager' has to do is manipulate the help ticket system here at work and voila! you have a manager.