JBee
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I can guarantee you that there are more people on that test in the factory looking through telemetry, than those sitting in the Cybertruck driving the test. We started doing that back in 2012 when we were developing the UAV CV recognition for SAR. In that we had people from Canada and England, let alone around Australia, logging in to the aircraft over 4G mobile connected to the onboard computer. Makes a world of difference in scheduling and getting eyes on time for development.That’s because the dude in the passenger seat is a friggin’ WIFI HOG and won’t share. So the driver had to get his own!
Seriously, I imagine one of those is hardwired into the CT to allow “home base” (IYKYK) to get realtime access to the computer and maybe make some changes on the fly. At a minimum, realtime monitoring.
They'd probably have to stop to do drive train type updates for safety reasons, but otherwise they would probably be pushing updates on the fly, for non-safety related stuff. I wonder how they set up the Starlink link back to base, as Starlink is NAT-ed so you don't get a static IP, meaning it's more difficult to route to the UAV from the outside. We had the same problem with 4G carriers as well, but then used Zerotier to create something like a VLAN to punch through, and it also does so by finding the shortest, and therefore lowest latency route which is helpful for time critical stuff.
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