In some embodiments, a vehicular micro cloud includes vehicles that are parked, vehicles that are traveling in different directions, infrastructure devices, or almost any endpoint that is within communication range of a member of the vehicular micro cloud. By comparison, a group of vehicles that exclude such endpoints as a requirement of being a member of the group are not vehicular micro clouds according to some embodiments.
In some embodiments, a vehicular micro cloud is operable to complete computational tasks itself, without delegation of these computational tasks to a cloud server, using the onboard vehicle computers of its members; this is an example of a vehicular micro cloud task according to some embodiments. In some embodiments, a group of vehicles which relies on a cloud server for its computational analysis, or the difficult parts of its computational analysis, is not a vehicular micro cloud. Although
In some embodiments, the modification system enables a group of vehicles to perform computationally expensive tasks that could not be completed by any one vehicle in isolation.