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Waymo turns out to be using remote operators from the Phillipines (futurism.com)

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Always had a suspicion, but its nice to know that you can just generally assume the worst about a technology these days.

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[–] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Yeah I thought it was known (and a good thing!) that when Waymo’s get confused there are remote humans to take over

I don’t think they should exist in the first place but if they’re going to, I definitely want there to be human operators who can cake over if the robot fucks up