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Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis
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- tromp 2y agoMeanwhile in the Tesla factory, workers are controlling its self-assembling cars.
- JSDevOps 2y agoFake it till you make it
- beretguy 2y agoSo... why? What problem are they trying to solve? Taxi as WFH?
- almatabata 2y agoThey do not specify the use-case, but if you are charitable, its probably the fallback mode if the self-driving stack cannot handle the situation. Waymo has the same thing as well, so not exactly unexpected.
- Zigurd 2y agoAll major AV deployments have human backup. Waymo published how their's works in broad terms: If a situation requires intervention, the human backup is presented with a choice among possible actions. What remote monitors imply depends: In China, you might be focusing on collecting data from rides that may need a lot of remote monitoring. Or, faking it until you make it. If you are Google and you like headcount minimalism, it shows you have confidence you can spend $5B on expanding AV service without blowing out you headcount. Tesla also likes to keep headcount low. So they think they can catch up to Waymo very quickly.
- manishsharan 2y agoIn case of an accident, who will be held liable? Tesla Inc. or the poor sod driving remotely?
- Zigurd 2y agoThe AV owner. Which complicates the "rent your car to an AV fleet" thing.