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It's such a ridiculously flawed concept to have remote operators. It seems like a way to make the work look better to "investors".
We already saw Waymos all stopping when the power went out in San Francisco recently (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36zdxl41jro). It has no resiliency in the case of any kind of failure whatsoever.
It's a bad idea to build anything on top of a foundation of things that can be disrupted so quickly. Like power, GPS, cell service and other radio communication. Data centers seem like another big failure point, although I think they still make a lot of sense to have.
But making your service rely on near-real-time internet access to another country is a whole other level of single point of failure. It's hard enough to make a one-way video feed real-time.
This obviously isn't a model for replacing all road vehicles with "driverless" ones. It will never happen. You can't remotely operate a 1 ton metal object moving at 20-80 mph.
People act like AI in its current form was inevitable but this reliance on centralized computation centers is one of the ways it was shaped by capital specifically.
It's just another way to outsource work to slave labor in foreign countries. Basically the peak of capitalist innovation.