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“Remotely control”, or “drive” if you will.
Only with worse vision, worse reflexes and probably worse pay
And without survival instinct or adrenaline to distract during decisions, great!
Worse pay and worse working conditions is the killer app of “tech” these days.
Hey more jobs for taxi drivers and safer to do from the comfort of your home. Just like a drone pilot!
Who would have thought that Taxi drivers one day would be able to work from home?
Lots of taxi drivers are already reckless. Imagine if they can drive remotely!
They’ll be driving multiple cars at the same time, while drunk.
Just like a drone pilot!
Why must you drone on???
I’m happy that the number of blow-jobs-while-working will increase for this sector
Waymo is doing the same. Mostly self-driving but when they get stuck a human at a help center takes the sticks. There are a lot of edge cases in the real world so it makes sense to just have the car programmed to be very conservative and let a human deal with it.
My concern is that some driving situations need to be resolved immediately. That handover could be an issue.
We already knew this was coming.
This, but it’s identifying the Muslim to send to the camps. And if you fail, they force you to take a selfie to appear in the captcha yourself
The self-driving taxis and humanoid robots companies like Tesla are developing are just a thinly disguised way of getting around immigration law. We’re a very long way away from having autonomous humanoid robots that can clean your house for you. But one remotely piloted by someone in Bangladesh wearing a haptic suit? If the tech was cheap enough, that sort of thing would be profitable.
It’s effectively an extremely perverse and exploitive form of immigration. When we bring immigrants in, they typically take low-level jobs. But they also get opportunities to advance themselves further. Moreover, in the US at least, any children immigrants have on US soil automatically become US citizens. So yes, immigrants come in on the bottom of the social ladder, but they have an opportunity to climb.
Here though? This is a way of getting all the labor we want from immigrants but without offering them the usual deal in return. And even worse, they won’t even be owed minimum wage.
Not only that, there is now a middleman involved so the citizens still get screwed instead of being able to access cheap labour directly.
How can I apply?
“CLASS D LICENSE!”
Tesla would not be the first robotaxi company to use this method. In fact, it’s an industry standard. It was previously reported that Cruise, the robotaxi company owned by General Motors, was employing remote human assistants to troubleshoot when its vehicles ran into trouble (the vehicles appear to have run into trouble every four to five miles). Google’s Waymo is also thought to employ the same practice, as does Zoox, the robotaxi firm owned by Amazon.
Ah, the old mechanical Turk trick. This time with chance of man slaughter.
Manslaughter is just an unavoidable risk in the name of short term profit, but we can counter it with thoughts and prayers /s
When are people ever going to figure out that Tesla’s “autopilot” is a freaking scam?
This is gonna kill people from the input lag alone.
There was an incident not too long ago where one of these robo-taxis ran a woman over to avoid another car doing something it didn’t expect and then it froze up and wouldn’t move at all with the woman trapped under the car. There wasn’t a driver to get out and help and it took a few minutes for bystanders to get involved to help her, and she ended up dying at the scene.
If we can’t get rid of these monstrosities, at least having a human monitoring them that can call 911 is important, but that still doesn’t solve the problem of there not being a human present to render aid if something goes wrong. (Not to imply that every human will be willing or able to render aid, but some chance of help is better than no chance of help.)
“How was your day, honey ?”
“I killed thirty people in a pile-up on Hwy74 remotely. I’ll be a little late.”
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Just subreptitiously sell it as a video game, you won’t even have to pay the drivers. I don’t see what could go wrong with this plan.
So Crazy Taxi, right?
So does he now want people working from home or not?
He’s very inconsistent.
ahahahahahaha!!
That’s freaking hilarious. Muskie is an idjit.
That’s like a normal taxi with extra steps!
How about hiring people to drive the taxis… Instead of hiring people to remotely drive the taxi… What exactly would be the difference??? Except actually having the driver in the vehicle is proven to work…
optics. Tesla has attracted so much investment money, and tech enthusiast customers with the promise of fully self-driving vehicles that they need to keep the illusion at all cost.
Because latency and removing the personal accountability of not wanting to die in a car crash are a feature!
