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Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis (gizmodo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Silicon Valley wants us to believe that their autonomous products are a kind of self-guided magic, but the technology is clearly not there yet. A quick peak behind the curtain has consistently revealed a product base that, at a minimum, is still deeply reliant on human workforces.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Remote human intervention when automated systems fail should be expected and required to be honest with current technology.

The "human in the loop" is one of those things that sounds good but isn't at all in reality.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/

A human was literally sitting at the wheel as Uber's taxi ran someone over.

Driving is nothing but edge cases, and that's why maybe paying drivers to drive people around is better than some half-baked AI driving people under trucks and hoping a call center employee is paying enough attention to bail them out.