Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.

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.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      25 days ago

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

    • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      25 days ago

      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?

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      25 days ago

      5G is a requirement for self driving cars. Usually the remote driver does low speed interventions to get the car out of a situation, then switches the automation back on.