So does he now want people working from home or not?
He’s very inconsistent.
Oh, don’t mistake. They’ll still have to go into an office, they’ll just be driving the cars remotely, most likely.
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.
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.
It’s a taxi, you pay a fare. That’s how taxis work.
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.
This is gonna kill people from the input lag alone.
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.
Leon just announced he’s starting an AI based gaming studio.
So Crazy Taxi, right?
With how popular trucking sims are… I don’t think you’re entirely off the mark
This is what’s known as a pro gamer move.
Bonus points if you land a jump.
So can I also start remote driving my car?
scammers pull the same shit over the world since the mechanical turk. at this point the joke’s on us.
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
Yarp. This all being sensationalized before we see the actual product and see how it is being implemented. They aren’t remotely driving cars at 50mph down a highway, they are going to remotely tell the car to pull over when someone puts a cone on the hood at a stop light as a prank, or if it gets stuck where it believe it may hit something in every direction, where it is stopped and someone will evaluate the risk via the cameras and guide the car in the best direction. So likely you need 1 person for a very large number of cars.
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.
I know. The Onion used to be such a great news source. What a shame they’ve fallen in to this fake news trap.
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.
This isn’t the onion nor parody.
i never said that. i said that the onion is not what it once was .
How is that relevant to the thread? This sub is “not the onion”. It means news that sounds made up. Why do you start talking about the Onion itself? Or do you not understand the sub?
I feel like onions in general have lost a lot of flavor. I think it has to do with farming conditions and big agriculture businesses trying to eek out more profit. I should probably just start growing my own.
Some people experience permanent loss of smell and taste from COVID.
you do know there is more then one kind of onion maybe just try different onions.
To be fair, it’s really hard to tell what you were saying. It took a few re-reads to parse your comment into something that makes sense.
And even that we all lost too many braincells.
its simple the onion is shit now and they are owned by totally different people now so basing something of the onion does not mean the same thing anymore.
Sentences, man. Run-on sentences make people’s heads hurt. I eventually got your message, but without reasonable punctuation, most readers just see a jumble of loosely-connected words.
maybe im not a grammar Nazi for random comments on the internet. i do not give a fuck about your punctuation i have been on the internet long enough to know nobody gives a fuck about punctuation. i do not even want to talk about punctuation its stupid. maybe get better.
I thought the machine and Robot are gonna do everything lol
That’s expensive bro. Just get a poor person to do it for next to nothing.
“How was your day, honey ?”
“I killed thirty people in a pile-up on Hwy74 remotely. I’ll be a little late.”
🤣🤣
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.
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?
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%.
Jebus Christ, it was a joke.
Which is a good thing right?
The remaining problem being not enough political pressure to get universal basic income going.
For the cab industry yes. Fuck everyone of them. Zero accountability.
Lots of taxi drivers are already reckless. Imagine if they can drive remotely!
Just like a drone pilot!
Why must you drone on???
They’ll be driving multiple cars at the same time, while drunk.
Can’t wait for the first 8 year old to be on trial for manslaughter because his dad had to go to the bathroom but didn’t want to lose his fare.
That’s not how any of this works.
I’m happy that the number of blow-jobs-while-working will increase for this sector
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!
