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Waymo and Cruise automation are building out call centres, where remote human monitors will be available to help out the vehicles when they get hung-up. The mon
by Fricken 9y ago
Waymo and Cruise automation are building out call centres, where remote human monitors will be available to help out the vehicles when they get hung-up. The monitors won't be able to make safety-critical interventions, but they'll be able to give the cars and passengers instructions, kind of like a backseat driver, I guess.
So if there's an accident scene, for example, the human monitor will judge whether to stop and wait, navigate a path through, or turn around and find a detour.
- stephengillie 9y agoAh, the cat is out of the proverbial bag! These cars are not really "self-driving" at all! They are merely remote-control cars with adaptive cruise and lane assist. So it's somewhere between a Lyft and remote surgery. What happens if the car loses internet?
- Fricken 9y agoNo, they're not remote control. The human operators can't make safety-critical interventions, they won't be able to drive a robotaxi 50 mph into a tree, for example. There's an inherent liability associated with that.
- verletx64 9y ago> Ah, the cat is out of the proverbial bag! These cars are not really "self-driving" at all! ? Do you class a self driving vehicle as one without any manual controls whatsoever? In which case, you're going to be waiting a long time for your version of it, and not for tech reasons.
- komali2 9y agoI think the implication is that those call centers will be used less than 1% of the time.
- jamesjyu 9y agoUpcoming Uber advertisement: "You don't even need a car! Work from home and drive from your mobile phone."