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> Waymo has been running a pilot program that lets people hail rides in its cars, at first with safety engineers riding in the driver’s seat, but fully driverle
by unicornporn 9y ago
> Waymo has been running a pilot program that lets people hail rides in its cars, at first with safety engineers riding in the driver’s seat, but fully driverless since November 2017.
Perhaps a stupid question... Does that mean that when the service starts the car will be devoid of any human (except for the paying customer/customers)?
- TulliusCicero 9y agoI think so, although apparently it's possible for Waymo to control the car remotely. Not sure if that means fully driving the car remotely, or just giving it higher level instructions.
- zerostar07 9y agowouldnt it be simpler and cheaper to just have an emergency driver in?
- monk_e_boy 9y agoI think they have considered that Remote driver with xbox controller who controls a car every 1,000 miles.... one person per 1,000 cars? Or your idea of 1,000 drivers for 1,000 cars. Hm....
- ghaff 9y agoWell, that assumes that solving whatever problem can be handled by a remote driver with no situational awareness of what's going on can plug in 5 minutes later and deal with things. That's not necessarily unreasonable for handling rare and non-urgent events but it's a lot different from having an alert backup driver. (Of course, if you need an alert backup driver, there's no benefit to autonomous systems once you get past the testing stage.)
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- jayd16 9y agoHow could it be cheaper to have a driver in each car instead someone watching 8 videos at once? They'll probably want cabin cams anyway so you wouldn't even save that expense.
- jacksmith21006 9y agoYes. But remotely monitored in a control center. I picture the replay center in the NBA.