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Guys in the Philippines aren’t driving those cars live. Ping between SF and Manila is ~200ms or about a 5th of a second which on top of human reaction time would not be adequate. This is about getting cars unstuck when they get stuck between an obstruction and violating traffic law.
You do realize that means they are live driving the car, maybe not 100% of the time, but waymo is having unlicensed drivers operating vehicles on US roads.
Additionally, this means they have people in another country taking over the cars when things failed and are potentially in a dangerous situation (where the ping might be a bigger issue).
Overall, we get big corporations able to skirt laws and pay people less money.
I think what its ‘about’ is painting outsourcing as ‘innovation’. There really does need to be a sort of service tax for businesses that use operators outside the legal reach of local jurisdictions.
We live in a twenty fucking twenty six. Corporations faking everything with ai, but they still fake that they even use ai. Can the bubble just pop so hard, so that ai can become an economical black hole?
“Innovation is where you find a way to hide the non-white person doing the work in another country” how silicon valley actually sees innovation.
The cloud is just somebody else’s pc
Back in my day we just called them servers
I can see why it’s a spicy headline but we should appreciate a human override capability.
Hopefully waymo is forced into transparency about this. Transparency 100% fully clear on when the tech runs into a variety of situations including humans intervening.
That should be a mandatory for them to have the licensing necessary to operate autonomous vehicles anywhere in public spaces.
After all, they are learning on the public’s dime and at the public’s risk. We have to know if it’s truly better and what kind of new risks are created that weren’t otherwise anticipated.
Sensationalists and pretty much false headline
Ikr they have offices in phoenix and detroit where they did the same thing
It is an autonomous driver system with human overseers. They are not in direct control all the time
Nobody cares about your propaganda on this one. Nobody but nerds looking to screech cared if a human steps in to correct a situation. The world runs on shit like this.
People care if tech companies are hiding exploitation under the veneer of “advancement.”
No, they don’t. They care about cost and ease of use. They do not give two single fucks that there may be human intervention.
I didn’t say intervention. I said exploitation. And people care enough about it when it’s too hard to ignore.
I’m not sure that word means what you think it means.
I’m not sure which of the very simple words in the comment you’re replying to might be confusing to you.
