[maxwellsdeamons]

The simple reason why they don’t do it: It has to be 100% reliable. Robots get stuck, need charge, software has bugs, … So your fleet of robots would need supervision. Probably for years to come. And a human driver only costs like 70-80k a year.

[fennecbutt]

The point of machine learning based systems (imo) is that they aren't 100% reliable.

Idk where people are getting the idea that systems designed to mimic biological brains will have machinelike precision whilst also being flexible to adapt to new situations.

[ensocode]

A human supervisor monitoring 10 or more vehicles and unstuck them in case will also not cost more per year.

[maxwellsdeamons]

Yeah, but this requires good teleoperator infrastructure. You can’t unstuck a robot that loses connection. There are just a lot of things that can go wrong. And an entire car being stuck and waiting for someone to come is also not cheap. I am pretty sure Amazon (one of the biggest robotics company on the planet btw) has done the math.