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by Kozmik1 531 days ago
It's easy enough to imagine an actual emergency which would necessitate remote or local intervention to stop the car, and the call seems to indicate that they don't have an emergency override or at least not without escalation.

What if there were a:

medical emergency of the passenger

crash up ahead

fire up ahead

earthquake

flood

malfunction of the driverless car

really anything that would make you pull over your actual car to the side of the road for your own safety or emergent needs.

And then you have to imagine if so, even with an e-stop button are you in a less safe situation if you do not have ability to reach the wheel from the back seat.

Those are concerns that would give me pause.

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There's a Pull Over button that will stop the vehicle.

He was "not immediately aware" of it and "did not have an opportunity to use it."

edit: there's a small blurry one that plausibly could be it at the very end of the video.

~you can see in the video that it's not showing that button on the screen though.~

It is a little blurry, but the icon for pull over appears to be visible at 1:41 on the screen at the bottom.
ah you're right, edited.
these conditions will be off not already covered in the TOS, and exempted the operator from being responsible for.