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Well mainly because telerobotics still sucks. This is a hard problem. We haven’t devoted enough effort to solve it on a practical level beyond tech demos in aca

• dougmwne 5y ago
  It's probably necessary to some degree just like Waymo has operators who can login when the vehicle reports a problem.
  • tialaramex 5y ago
    The operators deliberately cannot, as we had to keep explaining when this came up on HN previously, drive Waymo's cars remotely. They can reach into the car's model of the world to help it understand e.g. this thing that you decided is an ambulance is actually not an ambulance, so you don't need to treat it like one. Or, very simply, that road is shut, don't try to use it.
    • dougmwne 5y ago
      That seems like less of a distinction than you make it out to be. For regular people, the difference between driving and conducting is slight. For engineers and the implementation details it's a huge deal of course and makes a massive safety difference.