[jeffbee]

The remote operators are not called upon to answer matters of law.

[Retric]

Moving a car on public streets is a matter of law even if the car is interpreting moderately high level directions like make a U turn here.

Especially as the car is already having issues when they takeover.

[verdverm]

They aren't moving the car, they are answering customer calls and clicking waypoints on a map to unstuck the car when it phones home "I'm confused"

It's click bait for people's priors

[Retric]

Those waypoints have legal implications.

It’s often illegal to make a U-Turn to avoid a police checkpoint for example. There’s no way someone can unstick a confused car without being able to make legally relevant choices.

[dekhn]

In California (and I think most places) it's not illegal to make a (legal) U-turn to avoid a police checkpoint or otherwise avoid a checkpoint.

[Retric]

Waymo is operating in many locations outside of California such as Florida and Texas, and it intends to expand to many more states.

[dekhn]

It is also legal to u-turn before a police checkpoint in Florida and Texas. In fact I think it's true to say that you can do this in any state.

[circuit10]

I would assume that unsticking it requires forcing it to do maneuvers that it would otherwise refuse to do (or it would just unstick itself), so you'd need some knowledge of laws to do that

[catmanjan]

If someone from the Phillipines clicks waypoints for a drone in Ukraine, is it a warcrime?

[turtlesdown11]

> answer matters of law

well yes, answering matters of law is the exclusive jurisdiction of judges