LOL I wonder how people drive in the Philippines
Futurism: It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
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@ai6yr Do they know local traffic laws? Do they get enough context to follow local traffic laws?
Glad someone can be called for assistance when I see these things get stuck, but would prefer it not be someone used to driving on the other side of the road ...
Leading to the hypothetical question...
When the drunk Waymo operator in the Philippines runs over a 6 year old girl on Market St SF, who gets indicted for vehicular manslaughter?
And why has the NHTSA certified Waymo vehicles as 'Safe'?
Normally, if it is determined a faulty part has caused multiple, but unrelated accidents, then an national recall is triggered.
If a plane crashes, a major FAA investigation begins.
Why are we allowing self-driving vehicles a free pass?
LOL apparently Manila is a giant traffic jam.
“When the Waymo vehicle encounters a particular situation on the road, the autonomous driver can reach out to a human fleet response agent for additional information to contextualize its environment,” the post reads. “The Waymo Driver [software] does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the vehicle at all times.”
“When the Waymo vehicle encounters a particular situation on the road, the autonomous driver can reach out to a human fleet response agent for additional information to contextualize its environment,” the post reads. “The Waymo Driver [software] does not rely solely on the inputs it receives from the fleet response agent and it is in control of the vehicle at all times.”
@ai6yr this is, by the way, why all the Waymos stopped running when there was a big power outage in San Francisco a couple months ago. The cars encountered too many traffic lights that weren't working in a row and phoned home for advice. The people who were supposed to give that advice were swamped by Waymos not knowing what to do with all the signals out. Apparently they do know what to do when one light is out but nobody had thought to program them for a larger outage lol.
@me
I remember reading reports from that outage. The waymos didn't actually fail immediately. The issue was that as the cell towers' battery backups went down, the waymos gradually lost connection. Once they couldn't phone home for help, they rapidly began getting stuck, causing gridlock. In short, waymo is a taxi service where the drivers are underpaid Asians telecommuting for work, and the real service of waymo is avoiding social interaction at any cost.
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