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Unless Cruise has changed recently, they require a primary and backup person in the car, and the rules seemed strict. I remember they were super serious about i

Unless Cruise has changed recently, they require a primary and backup person in the car, and the rules seemed strict. I remember they were super serious about it, iirc you weren't allowed to talk to either of the drivers after you put your seatbelt on (or maybe it was after the car was on?). SF is also an easier place to be watching an SDV in the sense that there's more happening to keep your mind occupied (weird intersections, construction, people doing stupid things). It's a lot easier to lose focus when you're watching a car drive itself around deserted highways in the middle of the night.

lhorie 6y ago
> Unless Cruise has changed recently I can't say much about what their actual protocols are supposed to be, I can only offer my personal anecdata. I do occasionally see cruise cars around the Japan Town area with only one person in the car. They often park at the safeway across geary. The waymo cars, I see them roaming around closer to downtown, also with single driver, though they don't seem to concentrate in any particular area that I can tell. I also occasionally see unbranded SDVs, sometimes w/ two people, sometimes w/ one. Not sure which company those are from. > SF is also an easier place to be watching an SDV Well, from a regulatory perspective, one shouldn't be able to get away with saying "well I was not in a crowded area to keep me attentive, that's why the accident happened". I'd even argue that if the job involves looking at a tablet while the car is motion, then being in a crowded area would make things _more_ dangerous.