Why does this make the hair's stand up on end on my neck?
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When Waze no longer need humans
We won’t need the user’s smartphone app either. In 2021, 1/3 of cars will be connected and that is expected to rise rapidly. 5G is coming too and will offer significantly higher throughput than 4G. So, cars will have more powerful sensors and compute capabilities and be connected at high capacity. Thus, their local findings of road conditions can be sent to some centralized service, such as Waze HQ, for aggregation, processing, and maintaining real time maps.
While that processing might be fast, it might be slightly quicker to receive insights from neighboring cars — and if you are sending a warning about a danger in the road, every second can make a difference. Like the telephone game in which a message is passed from one person to another, cars could do this too. A connected vehicle that spots a blown out tire in the road, could relay its message down the road behind it, one car to another. Such vehicle to vehicle (V2V) capabilities, and more generally vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to anything (V2X), are in heavy development. This is because V2V, and later V2I, are key to reaping the full benefits of autonomous vehicles.
The government gets this and they have concluded that they will likely have to mandate it through regulation: