A wonderful protocol that, 25 years after its introduction, still allows a trivial attack to disconnect clients from its networks without knowing any encryption key or password. Great choice for safety critical operations such as road use.
imagine being crushed because you were on a bike and the overtaken by someone who's wifi cut out
The advancement of technology is to need less to do more. This is literally requiring more for more’s sake
Just... why? What's the benefit or use case of having wireless towing lol. Presumably so you don't need a big truck to haul whatever but then... you need to buy the wifi tow truck still?
I suspect some of this is just to justify paying the R and D department.
Yeah bu the hitch is now 1000x as expensive. Win-win.
Imagine owning one of those absurd F-350 monster trucks because you say you need to tow your boat. And then buying an over-engineered remote-controlled Honda Civic engine to actually do the work.
I'll be looking forward to the videos of one of these things trying to self-park at a state park with uneven or gravely terrain and backing the entire camper off a cliff while the party in the lead SUV watches on helplessly. Uncle Jerry was sleeping in the camper.
It seems kinda silly but the press release for it say it'll work with empty cars guided by another car rather than like a trailer or something. So it's not necessarily so much a bad application of research and engineering skill as it is a technology that'll empower repossesion agents, which is definitely bad in its own way.
This diagram is wrong. If they're not attached you have to use the car to push the trailer in front of you. Looks fine to me otherwise.
