• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    Optical fiber is really not very flexible. It doesn’t like sharp corners, it has pretty fast dropout, and if it gets banged against something it’ll break.

    It’s good for infrastructure that doesn’t move, it’s not fantastic for controlling vehicles remotely. That’s why remote control submarines don’t use it and underwater is probably a more forgiving environment than in the air.