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Does anybody know how much this is currently backed with human intervention? My understanding is that Waymo is bridging the gap between their current level and

• tialaramex 4y ago
  Waymo has to do SAE Level 4 because there literally is no human driver in the vehicle. You aren't allowed to sit in the seat where the pedals and wheel are, this isn't assistance, it's a driver, like in a taxi. Remote humans can correct the machine's model of the world, to a limited extent. A human looking at the data might conclude that's a life-size cardboard cut out of Luke Skywalker, not Mark Hamill stood motionless in the road in costume for no reason, and so it's OK for the Waymo to squeeze past it, whereas driving very close to humans is unacceptable. They don't have any means to remotely drive the car, if for any reason that's the solution to a problem, the Waymo will stop somewhere, a vehicle with Waymo employees in will turn up in a few minutes, then a human driver gets into your car and takes over. This does not seem to happen very often.