[bryanlarsen]

That's not "always a driver monitoring". They're not actively monitoring all of them all of the time, they're responding to requests from the car.

And they're not drivers, they're supervisors. They don't take over driving, AFAICT they issue high-level commands like "safe to proceed", "take the right lane", et cetera.

[Abroszka]

There is always somebody ready to respond. Of course they can't take full control, that would be stupid dangerous, but they can still control the car. They even have people who go to your car to get it unstuck manually when needed.

[TulliusCicero]

They can tell the car what to do like a human navigator in the front seat, but they don't directly operate the car. Those are very different things.

[JumpCrisscross]

> There is always somebody ready to respond

I mean, this is true for Uber as well.