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At least for Starship robots, the answer is yes. As I understand it, the way it works is that if the robots have any doubt about the safety of continuing, they
by SeanLuke 4y ago
At least for Starship robots, the answer is yes. As I understand it, the way it works is that if the robots have any doubt about the safety of continuing, they stop and wait. If they have waited too long, they phone home and someone at the central office teleoperates them to safety, where they're in a position where they can continue autonomously.
The robots can avoid obstacles autonomously, queue up in long robot lines, and even cross the street by themselves when there are no cars.
- alkonaut 4y agoThis is also how "full self driving" cars will work, for as long as we live. Currently the cost race among car manufacturers is battery production, leading to enormous battery factories popping up. The next one will be for massive sweatshops where car manufacturers hire people are on-call to steer a mercedes around a poorly placed traffic cone.
- londons_explore 4y agoIf this is the future, there is an interesting outcome... To begin with, operators will control one/a few cars. But eventually as many cars are deployed, it will instead make more sense for the operator to specialize on a particular city or street. You might end up with the operator driving all cars down a particular street, directing each one around the poorly placed traffic cone. Which doesn't look awfully different to a construction worker today directing traffic...
- StevenWaterman 4y agoIf you have enough cars travelling one specific bit of street that you can employ someone full-time to do it, you'll very quickly get enough data to remove that edge case.