| ▲ | zer00eyz 6 days ago | |
Waymo has been testing freeway driving for a bit: https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1gsv4d7/waymo_spotte... > and uses remote operators to make decisions in unusual situations and when it gets stuck. This is why its limited markets and areas of service: connectivity for this sort of thing matters. Your robotaxi crashing cause the human backup lost 5g connectivity is gonna be a real real bad look. NO one is talking about their intervention stats. IF they were good I would assume that someone would publish them for marketing reasons. | ||
| ▲ | decimalenough 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Your robotaxi crashing cause the human backup lost 5g connectivity is gonna be a real real bad look. Waymo navigates autonomously 100% of the time. The human backup's role is limited to selecting the best option if the car has stopped due to an obstacle it's not sure how to navigate. | ||
| ▲ | refulgentis 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> NO one is talking about their intervention stats. Interventions are a term of art, i.e. it has a specific technical meaning in self-driving. A human taking timely action to prevent a bad outcome the system was creating, not taking action to get unstuck. > IF they were good I would assume that someone would publish them for marketing reasons. I think there's an interesting lens to look at it in: remote interventions are massively disruptive, the car goes into a specific mode and support calls in to check in with the passenger. It's baked into UX judgement, it's not really something a specific number would shed more light on. If there was a significant problem with this, it would be well-known given the scale they operate at now. | ||