[rvnx]

The responsibility of this safety driver is to monitor the ride and be responsible in case of accident.

It's his main task, like any driver, just he has to pay attention to less things than a standard ride, since he has a very smart car (like when you sit in a Tesla with FSD).

Just he is not sitting in the car, instead in his office or home.

[mynameisvlad]

I basically covered this already in my previous comment, so I'm just going to restate it.

> why would anybody ever sign that contract except under duress or exceptional circumstances when they can get a job... literally anywhere else?

> And even if that was a viable approach right now, the point of AI/self-driving technology is that the number of cars will vastly outnumber the number of employees once fully deployed and not in limited pilot programs.

[rvnx]

I understand what you mean, though drivers already take personal risks on the behalf of corporations.

If you are a Uber-driver, and enable the FSD on your Tesla, it's not Uber nor Tesla who will get in troubles if you are having an accident.

For now the situation with Waymo, can be the same as a driving instructor. The remote driver is the driving instructor, and Waymo AI is the student getting monitored and doing the driving.

The driver is responsible and, then they can potentially sue (or have agreement with Waymo) if it caused damages beyond their own responsibility (for example, if driver hits the brakes, and Waymo has overridden his manual commands).

Once this solution is safe, drivers will get more comfortable babysitting more than one car at once; essentially solving the scale issue that you mention.