[yonran]

The blog post makes no mention of the cellular network congestion/dropped packets that affected people during the power outage. I had bars but was unable to load websites for most of the day. Were Waymos unaffected by the network problems, or were request timeouts encompassed in the word “backlog” used by the blog post?

[AlotOfReading]

The networking on AVs is usually redundant across multiple cellular networks to deal with coverage and outage issues. They also use business sims, which usually have a slightly higher network priority than consumers. If waymo's also negotiated to use one of the infrastructure QCIs instead, it would take some seriously disastrous network conditions for them to experience meaningful congestion.

[fowl2]

I wonder if the cars also have some sort of mesh (LoRaWAN?) network to help each other out in temporary dead zones, emergencies, etc.