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Now we just have to wait for some startup to pitch "local drivers" as a revolutionary new idea.

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We DO NOT want Indians remote driving cars in America holy shit.

Amazon stopped being able to deliver working products in 2016

What’s hilariously tragic is that he could very likely have his full self-driving if he would just shut his shit-spewing asshole of a mouth for a hot second, and spend some of his ungodly billions on the problem.

There are incredibly bright people out there who can make this stuff a reality. But, it takes paying them well, not shit-talking or overruling them, and giving them the environment for success—e.g., not taking away the radar from the cars.

He just wants to talk a big game without spending any real effort or money on the problem. And, it’s just sad, because he could have his FSD and look like a genius.

To be fair it is probably not on purpose. He is just too stupid to make realistic estimates of what will be possible.

So most like any job these days

Remote human intervention when automated systems fail should be expected and required to be honest with current technology. There are simply too many edge cases in the real world, even with the trillions of miles Tesla has trained their system on.

It's normal in the industry but the industry likes to tell the public otherwise so from time to time these articles pop up.

Amazon's just walk out shop, with AI looking with cameras what you bought, was actually run by indians remotely because the automation didn't quite work. Food delivery robots are run by people in low cost areas. Over guy runs multiple robots with a pont-and-click interface. That kind of thing. I'm sure autonomy is worked on but it's not fully autonomous yet.

It seems you've thought this through. Did you get an interview yet?

Hey hey hey, it’s time to make crrrazy money! Are you ready?

Experience on Carmaggedon is also a plus.

A Waymo looks like this. The Tesla robotaxi looks like this - see anything missing?
That's right, all the sensors and hardware required to make safe, functioning autonomous car.

As long as Tesla keeps listening to the fundamentally flawed idea of Musk that "Humans drive using only their eyes, therefore autonomous cars don't require anything except a camera", they are destined to fail, as that system can't prevent crashing into things if it doesn't understand what it is looking at.

I guess it's not for live driving?

Oh yes, it is. They mean business.

The ping of any connection can't be good enough for that?

The internet infrastructure of any really existing city is not good enough if just a few thousand cars "suddenly" become unable to self-drive, and therefore need these thousands of remote guys with their VR glasses.

Or, maybe there will be only 50 of these VR guys anyway, and so it takes, let's say, 20 hours to move 1000 cars, or 60 hours to move 3000 cars...

BTW How much food and water do you carry in your car, usually?

“Whoops you hit a dead zone — missed stopping at the red light and killed the passenger, would you like to reload and try again?”