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		tkahn6 on Nov 11, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Driving a car with an iPhone. It says on their site that they use UDP for sending/receiving steering and breaking commands (among other things). I would assume they have some major redundancy on each command. Would it not be smarter to use TCP to control a car?

chrischen on Nov 11, 2009 [–]

I would think UDP would be better, since they are not concerned with perfect data integrity, just as long as the data gets there before they hit something.

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