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"Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle." Well remember that staff only work about 40 hours/week while Cruise i
by pasttense01 3y ago
"Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle."
Well remember that staff only work about 40 hours/week while Cruise is in operation day and night (168 hours/week). With sick days and vacations it probably takes about 5 people to provide one person always on duty. And a lot of these workers are doing other things than monitoring individual Cruise vehicles.
In summary a Cruise worker is monitoring several vehicles.
- zx8080 3y ago> worker is monitoring several vehicles. It does not seem otherwise to be viable to replace a cheap driver person to expensive engineer as 1 to 1. At least as 1 to 10, probably even more.
- idopmstuff 3y agoWhy does it need to be an expensive engineer? You can use a cheap remote driver person to manually control the car to get it past whatever obstacle it's encountered, then they give control back to the car.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 3y agoYou're assuming these are engineers. Even if that might actually be the case now, because they want to learn about the edge cases where the cars are failing, I doubt they'd need highly skilled staff long term.
- quickthrower2 3y agoMaybe the 1.5 people is the number taking into account hours? That might work because for say 10 cars that is 15 regular people, or about 4 "24 hour people"