Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis
Tesla Is Looking to Hire a Team to Remotely Control Its 'Self-Driving' Robotaxis
Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.
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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.
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I thought the machine and Robot are gonna do everything lol
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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.
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Not only that, there is now a middleman involved so the citizens still get screwed instead of being able to access cheap labour directly.
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I'd like to volunteer, just add a strong wheel
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So does he now want people working from home or not?
He's very inconsistent.
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Oh, don't mistake. They'll still have to go into an office, they'll just be driving the cars remotely, most likely.
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Ah yes, you know what's better than a taxi driver? A taxi driver who relies on a camera with a limited field of vision, experiences input and video lag, and receives none of the tactile sensations that allow drivers to gauge road conditions.
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also one that has no personal stake in the safety of their driving
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Yeah, but you're ignoring one thing. I don't have to sit awkwardly hoping the driver doesn't talk to me. The risk/reward here might be screwed but I live dangerously.
Plus I welcome the opportunity to sue/fuck-over elon.
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People who don't drive themselves will be responsible for the UI of all this.
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This really just comes down to people in a certain income brackets are uncomfortable being in close contact with a working class person.
That's why they don't like trains, that's why they don't like taxis.
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It's a good thing that's not what's happening, but I guess that doesn't help the "Musk Bad" agenda
is planning to hire a human team to remotely troubleshoot its robotaxi operations.
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The job post also notes that such a teleoperation center requires “building highly optimized low latency reliable data streaming over unreliable transports in the real world.” Tele-operators can be “transported” into the robotaxi via a “state-of-the-art VR rig,” it adds.
Sounds an awful lot like they're going to need someone to remote pilot those cars when they get stuck. It also sounds like the system will have at least some latency, and will probably rely entirely on cameras, since Musk doesn't build LiDAR or other non-visual sensors into his cars anymore! Anyway, sorry if that disrupts your, "I'm a sad dork who feels the need to defend the world's richest man even though he makes hundreds of stupid, childish decisions that are clearly detrimental to the companies he owns," agenda.
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"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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🤣🤣
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I'm in, with generations of GTA experience
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Should be totally shut down until self diving is perfected. Shouldn't even be allowed the chance to lie about it.
Also they should get taxed into the ground. Like $5,000 Bill for signing a new customer up, and $60k every time the service is used. Daddy Warbucks can afford it and he be fixing the economy.
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Basically what the self driving food delivery robots do in Berkeley, then
They are pretty autonomous, but if they get stuck then someone in Colombia takes control
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We already knew this was coming.
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And to quote the comic:
"Crowdsourced steering" doesn't sound quite as appealing as "self driving."
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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
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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.
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So Crazy Taxi, right?
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Leon just announced he's starting an AI based gaming studio.
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With how popular trucking sims are... I don't think you're entirely off the mark
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3 weeks later:
"Your honour, it was the ping!"
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Objection! Speculation!
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Prosecution calls first witness; my teenage neighbor nemesis, his 28.8k baud modem, and Warcraft2
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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.
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My concern is that some driving situations need to be resolved immediately. That handover could be an issue.
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But, Elon's will demand that these drivers show "commitment to the team" by working 100 hours a week, and his vision for the tech has, ironically, never, been conservative.
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“Remotely control”, or “drive” if you will.
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Only with worse vision, worse reflexes and probably worse pay
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And without survival instinct or adrenaline to distract during decisions, great!
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Worse pay and worse working conditions is the killer app of “tech” these days.
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How can I apply?
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“CLASS D LICENSE!”
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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?
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Nah, they'll still have to come into the office 3-4 days a week for "collaboration" and "cross-team building". But they can do their drone whatsyhootzit from their cramped cubicles!
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I'm happy that the number of blow-jobs-while-working will increase for this sector
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No, it's not. Many companies are doing this monitoring at 10:1 ratios. It hurts my brain that so many people don't understand what a massive industry changing number that is. Even at early maturity these systems can reduce workforce by 90%.
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is planning to hire a human team to remotely troubleshoot its robotaxi operations.
Ok so they're not remotely driving, as the title would have you believe.
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On the one hand, this means they may be serious about actually trying to make this work. On the other hand, it'll almost certainly require a subscription to use the robotaxi in fully autonomous mode because that'll be an ongoing liability for Tesla.
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So can I also start remote driving my car?
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This is what's known as a pro gamer move.
Bonus points if you land a jump.
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how many owners has the onion had now like all better known sites that were magazines they are all just skin suits that only use the name Recognition and nothing more.
i do love a car with no steering wheel what could go wrong.
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I know. The Onion used to be such a great news source. What a shame they’ve fallen in to this fake news trap.
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its almost like this whole sub is based off something that is shit and lame now like its supposed to be funny or something. so becoming a parody of itself.
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Y'all want to laugh but you lack the larger picture.
These folks will be on demand if a car gets stuck or lost. You'll have 1 person to 10 cabs and that number will go up as they collect data and iterate.
Your hated over this dude has really blinded many of you. You can be pissed but this is going to mostly replace human cab drivers in 15 years.
AI isn't going to immediately replace anyone. It will reduce demand over decades.
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Yeah, what can go wrong.
In another thread we’re in a discussion about housing and you’re like it’s not that bad I was able to buy a house.
I’m starting to suspect you’re a tech bro and now it all makes sense why it’s not that bad.
It’s not about hating Elon, the dude with most punchable face ever, it’s about hating the fact that my safety is gonna be compromised by lazy fucks who can’t drive themselves and instead are letting the “AI” (aka a poor remote “cab driver” who’s “driving” a dozen other cars at the same time) drive the car for them.
You financially benefit from this shit no wonder you support it. Tech bros are selling out humanity.
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You've invented such a fantastic story for me.
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!remindme 15 years
Was this silly clown any more correct about the future than any of the other Elon stans have been in the previous 15 years?
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I tend to think half of it is bots judging by the pattern of what gets said on the mirad of topics touching the companies he runs.
Then the way they rabidly pounce on anything like the water deluge system at starbase causing massive pollution that wasn't true, then the court basically reaffirms everything SpaceX said happens and denys an injunction to stop it's use and they will still forever hate it, is quite telling of their hatred or ignorance.
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