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> Waymo has remote workers who can provide information and directions to the self-driving vehicles. And this tells you everything you need to know about the ov
by falcolas 4y ago
> Waymo has remote workers who can provide information and directions to the self-driving vehicles.
And this tells you everything you need to know about the overall viability of self-driving cars. There's a human. There's always a human.
I've seen this in other "High quality AI" powered products too. One, for example, parsed the Twitter firehose for events that folks would pay to get notified about. But it had to be backed up by an entire call center worth of people - some of whom also monitored live feeds and others monitoring AI feeds - to make sure that the quality was acceptable.
- peter422 4y agoFYI if one human could manage 10 or 20 cars, that would still be a huge efficiency improvement over the current situation.
- cbm-vic-20 4y ago"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" called this out over 120 years ago.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoI've been in the backseat for early testing at multiple companies. No human drives that badly. What you see in videos and experience on rides is software that's been heavily polished to not scare the living daylights out of riders and drive safely.