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Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board (futurism.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by other_cat@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"This is it. We're dead. We're going to die right here in the Waymo."

This combined with another recent article from some insiders at Tesla saying, along the lines, "You couldn't pay me to let one of these things drive me somewhere."

And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about "never having to drive again."

EDIT: Comments have pointed out that this story is, at best, overblown and semi-fabricated otherwise. Take it with a massive grain of salt. But feel free to discuss self-driving, waymo, etc in the comments!

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[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I thought I remember reading somewhere that Waymos aren't automated at all and are really just being driven remotely by people in the Philippines.

Found the Article: https://www.techspot.com/news/111233-waymo-admits-autopilot-often-guys-philippines.html

They claim they are just there to intervene in emergencies, but the aggressive way I've seen those fucking things drive on surface streets around my place, I don't doubt they're driving them 100% of the time.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Minimum 120ms latency added to the operator's reaction speed.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

.12 seconds at 65MPH is about 115 feet.

[–] Krompus@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Yikes.

[–] vetehinen@lethallava.land 2 points 3 months ago

@DragonAce@lemmy.world there's really no evidence of that at all and their support staff is much smaller compared to the size of the fleet. You can also find plenty of examples of Waymos behaving in a way that human remote controlling them would never be doing. So it's seems very unlikely that these vehicles are some kind of "mechanical turks".

[–] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spend a little time watching footage of the weird stuff Waymos sometimes do you and you'll be easily convinced they're absolutely not being controlled by humans all the time.

[–] DragonAce@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It could be possible that the remote operators take control in complex crowded situations like side streets with cars parked on both sides of the streets and 2-way traffic having to share a single lane. But you're probably right, what I'm interpreting as aggressive driving could just be the programming doing odd things because it gets confused.