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I was talking about Waymo. It's real and it's spreading everywhere. Give it another 10-20 years and your job will probably face the same fate.

• lodovic 1y ago
  15 years would be perfect to still reach retirement age. After that, good luck to whoever's left in the profession.
• s1mplicissimus 1y ago
  waymo was that company that still heavily relies on manual remote operator intervention, right?
  • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
    Regardless, the car mostly driving itself while remote operators handle particularly tricky situations is a feat which will allow driver-not-in-vehicle taxis to take over. My understanding (which admittedly could be the victim of successful PR) is that the vast majority of the driving and even a majority of the trips are fully automated.
    • s1mplicissimus 1y ago
      "particularly tricky situations" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here to describe situations every owner of a driving license is expected to handle routinely. driver-not-in-vehicle is an interesting approach, but calling it "self-driving" is doing the mechanical turk without the reveal. Someone less charitable might assume intentional misrepresentation for the sake of winning an internet argument.