Seems a bit clickbaity: >At the moment, however, vehicles are being delivered with a “safety driver” sitting behind the wheel who can take control of the car i

Seems a bit clickbaity: >At the moment, however, vehicles are being delivered with a “safety driver” sitting behind the wheel who can take control of the car if necessary. Fetch hopes to go fully remote after 18 months of demonstrated success. >Fetch currently only has four cars in its fleet, operating within a four-mile radius of central Milton Keynes. And of course this is false: >Once the rental period is up, a remote operator can take control of the vehicle and drive it to the next customer or return it to its base to charge. this might happen in the future, and only once the need for the safety driver will be removed. At the most it can be called a limited, local experiment, and it is not clear (to me) the actual advantage, if they are not aiming to eventually reach autonomous vehicle operation. An autonomous taxi or car rental will remove the driver (and connected costs), a remote driven vehicle only keeps the (remote) driver static in one place. And some - even if minimal - autonomous driving capabilities seem like needed anyway, in case of connection losses, I would expect that it won't be allowed to have cars that suddenly stop in the middle of the road because there was a glitch in the communications.