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My money’s betting that there’s a remote driver sitting at a desk in Asia who is commanding this. Driverless, sure, but not autonomous.
by aabhay 7y ago
My money’s betting that there’s a remote driver sitting at a desk in Asia who is commanding this. Driverless, sure, but not autonomous.
- Spivak 7y agoI mean that would actually be pretty cool! Taxi driver as a desk job with multiple offices geographically so drivers never have to work outside of 9-5.
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- p1necone 7y agoIf that's really how it's working I don't see it being good enough. Latency would be too high, and the infrastructures not there for a reliable enough internet connection from (somewhere in the USA) to (somewhere in asia).
- zyang 7y ago5G is supposed to make this feasible.
- october_sky 7y ago> 5G is supposed to make this feasible. 5G does not make this feasible. 5G does not break the speed of light
- Nition 7y agoHas anyone done this successfully so far? I would have thought that the round trip time for the video feed + returning inputs would be prohibitive. I've done a similar thing with vehicles in videogames, and anything over around 150ms was pretty much undriveable.
- zip1234 7y agoIt's possible. Should not be done for safety reasons (and not the safety of the passengers).
- aabhay 7y agoYou can have low level autonomy features but high level overrides and route planning by a person, including protected rights, jaywalkers, and some emergency manual driving for construction zones, etc.
- bretpiatt 7y agoA number of semi-autonomous forklifts exist, driver sits at a desk with controls and screen, can drive 3-6 as you really just need driver for load and unload (and maybe tricky nav bit).
- pierrebai 7y agoRead the blog entry on disengagement. This is exactly it: there are remote operator that can disengage the AI and take over in some situation for caution.
- taneq 7y agoIf it's like the system Waymo's talked about, there will be remote operators who can help the system disambiguate unusual circumstances but they won't have direct control of the vehicle. It'll be more like the car asking "I'm stopped behind this van, should I wait for it or try to go around?" Once the physical driving is done by the system there's nothing wrong with letting a human help out with the corner cases. And obviously as each case occurs it generates more targeted data so that the system can learn to cover those cases itself in future. As with most automation, 'perfect' is the enemy of 'good', and the most pragmatic and cost effective solution is to let the system handle the low hanging fruit while humans do the tricky stuff.