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by ra7 1130 days ago
To clarify: they have remote assistance teams, but they cannot “take over” and control the car at all. All they can do is things like plotting a path to go around if the vehicle gets stuck. They have no ability to do safety critical interventions, the vehicle is capable of reaching a ‘minimum risk condition’ all on its own.

Uber drivers would also need to be trained to do this and Uber needs to setup facilities for this. I don’t believe this is likely.