Why flip a switch when you can just let the bike sense if it is going up or down hill?

Would make hilly terrain a much smoother ride.

Then again, if you do all that electrical, you already just have an electric bike. Which is even more versatile on flat ground.

Depends entirely on the amount of data and the bandwidth.

Phoning home every hour is a couple of KB at most and doesn’t matter how long it takes.

Streaming videos on the other hand, a lot more and you don’t want to be waiting.

Doing the same at their burger flipping job of course