[FL33TW00D]

Completely false: https://x.com/i/status/2019213765506670738

Listen to the statement.

The operators help when the Waymo is in a "difficult situation".

Car drives itself 99% of the time, long tail of issues not yet fixed have a human intervene.

Everyone is making out like it's an RC car, completely false.

[ChadNauseam]

Whenever something like this comes out, it's a good moment to find people with no critical thinking skills who can safely be ignored. Driving a waymo like an RC car from the philippines? you can barely talk over zoom with someone in the philippines without bitrate and lag issues.

[hijnksforall]

Hacker News has had some of the dumbest Tesla takes of all time. People should be embarrassed about some of the claims that were made here.

And apparently some people still haven't caught on.

Have a look if you don't believe me:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=0&prefix=false...

[Hikikomori]

Seems to be some ketamine on that boot.

[anigbrowl]

Except that's not what the original posters said, rather 'operators making major decisions.' Don't strawman here, it wastes everyone's time.

[ChadNauseam]

I didn't mean to insult the original poster. But I have seen people who think that waymos are being driven remotely by filipinos

[MillionOClock]

I haven't read anything about this but I would also suppose long distance human intervention cannot be done for truly critical situations where you need a very quick reaction, whereas it would be more appropriate in situations where the car has stopped and is stuck not knowing what to do. Probably just stating the obvious here but indeed this seems like something very different from an RC car kind of situation.

[sroussey]

It’s not for that. It’s for things like the car drove into a protest area and people are surrounding the car. Or police blocked off an intersection and the car is stuck temporarily with people doing otherwise illegal u-turns or driving the wrong way on a one way road to get out of it.