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A human is psychologically incapable of paying attention for hours on end to take over from the AI at the spur of the moment. It would be easier for a human to

• viraptor 3y ago
  Humans have a good sense for "things not going right" though. Crashing is one failure class. Crashing due to bad sensors/logic and continuing to drive the same way because you don't know things are broken is another class.
• Ekaros 3y ago
  I also doubt that humans are very useful in self-driving loops. They might be able to solve some hardware failure cases of rig itself. But I doubt they will avoid most accidents at highway conditions. After month of nothing happening all day they don't really pay attention. Ships and planes are different as most of the times margins of reaction time is not seconds, but minutes... Giving enough time to person overseeing to re-orient themselves.
• tzs 3y ago
  For trucks on highways you might not need continuous attention. For example I've driven between Los Angeles and the Bay Area late at night, and between central California and Seattle late at night, and for much of that time there were no other cars near me. Just the occasional faster car that comes from over the horizon behind me, passes me, and disappears over the forward horizon, or the occasional situation where I'm the faster car doing that to someone else. With an AI driver I could have read or slept most of the trip with the AI only asking me to pay attention when we are encountering other vehicles or there is anything unexpected near the road, and probably covered 99% of the cases where something happens that needs an attentive human driver to take over for.