Bypassing the traffic jams on the information superhighway

A taxi without a driver, controlled from the other end of the world? Quite conceivable in the age of the internet. Damian Gorczany In order to travel from A to B in Berlin, you don't need a local taxi driver. Your cab could just as well be driven from Brazil - provided that the data packets are delivered reliably and, above all, quickly. A taxi driver navigating his cab through the city. A surgeon performing a procedure at the operating table. "These close spatial relationships are in the process of dissolving," points out Professor Steffen Bondorf. The computer scientist heads the Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems in the Faculty of Computer Science at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.