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add-sub-mul-divyesterday at 4:51 PM3 repliesview on HN

"Autonomous"

https://cybernews.com/news/waymo-overseas-human-agents-robot...


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Rebelgeckoyesterday at 5:10 PM

My understanding is that support is basically playing an RTS (point and click), not a 1P driving game. Which makes sense, if they were directly controlling the vehicles they'd put support in central America for better latency, like the food delivery bot drivers

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TulliusCiceroyesterday at 5:20 PM

This isn't news, they've always acknowledged that they have remote navigators that tell the cars what to do when they get stuck or confused. It's just that they don't directly drive the car.

tamimioyesterday at 11:34 PM

Yeah I have some videos of these drivers in action, I think the sensors are as assistance and but not the whole story, so yeah there’s models lidars etc etc but human factor is there, unfortunately this means we should see soon many cobitics are teleopetated remotely from India and Philippines and the likes to satisfy the greed of these companies to pay peanuts to operate them.