It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
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During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

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

  • ClimateStalin [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days 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