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Waymo remote operators cannot drive the car

• slim 8mo ago
  how do you know ?
  • rcxdude 8mo ago
    It would be a certifiably insane model with the latency and failure modes involved, for a start.
  • galkk 8mo ago
    Physics. Have you ever played a competitive/reaction based video game with high ping? It is very, very hard. And it’s a game, where there are many tricks to hide latency from you. Cloud console shows pings between Google data centers in us-west and ones that are in proximity of Philippines around 160-200ms. Then you also have inherent lag of wireless connection itself. Then you have also connectivity from google’s data center to Philippines. If you want remote driving in uncontrolled environment, you reasonably can expect only the same city/county operators. I’m obviously uninformed, but I’d expect the remote operators job (from another country) to be like “car is safe to proceed, based on that picture that I see” or, in the worst case scenario, put some waypoints in the ui and let car drive on its own.
    • hackable_sand 8mo ago
      Thankfully technology hasn't advanced since 2010!
      • keeda 8mo ago
        Sure, technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, but we haven't quite figured out how to exeed the speed of light just yet ;-)