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by XorNot 1592 days ago
A decent chunk of this list can be handled by the car coming to a safe stop and signalling that it is unable to proceed and you need to navigate the situation.

I suspect a lot of these could also be handled by that being a remote connection where a human is given the camera input and can indicate how the car should proceed (i.e. broken water main is a road obstruction that won't clear, and the obvious answer is a manual override to mark the road as unusable so the nav system reroutes).
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moss2 1592 days ago
Let's hope the only passenger has a driver's license and isn't drunk or having a medical emergency.
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XorNot 1592 days ago
In both those cases they wouldn't be able to drive anyway, and the result is not more dangerous or worse then the alternative.
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phkahler 1592 days ago
>> In both those cases they wouldn't be able to drive anyway...

Well that's not even a robo-taxi then.

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glbeaty 1591 days ago
Both Cruise and Waymo have remote operators who can direct the cars when they phone home.

Here's an example Vogt discusses a bit: https://youtu.be/sliYTyRpRB8?t=202

...of course this brings up many other problems, like network connectivity and inter-city transport, which the companies have as far as I know not commented on. IMO the sensible solution is obviously to just require passengers be able to take over if given plenty of warning, but for whatever reason Cruise isn't doing this.

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