Elon Musk's "fully autonomous" cars will, like other robotaxi vehicles, rely on remote human pilots.
  • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    So does he now want people working from home or not?

    He’s very inconsistent.

    • Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      6 days ago

      Oh, don’t mistake. They’ll still have to go into an office, they’ll just be driving the cars remotely, most likely.

  • rational_lib@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    On the one hand, this means they may be serious about actually trying to make this work. On the other hand, it’ll almost certainly require a subscription to use the robotaxi in fully autonomous mode because that’ll be an ongoing liability for Tesla.

  • lipilee@feddit.nlEnglish
    16·
    5 days ago

    scammers pull the same shit over the world since the mechanical turk. at this point the joke’s on us.

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    221·
    6 days ago

    Just subreptitiously sell it as a video game, you won’t even have to pay the drivers. I don’t see what could go wrong with this plan.

  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    5 days ago

    How about hiring people to drive the taxis… Instead of hiring people to remotely drive the taxi… What exactly would be the difference??? Except actually having the driver in the vehicle is proven to work…

    • Wrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      Because latency and removing the personal accountability of not wanting to die in a car crash are a feature!

    • captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      optics. Tesla has attracted so much investment money, and tech enthusiast customers with the promise of fully self-driving vehicles that they need to keep the illusion at all cost.

    • kcuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      4 days ago

      You can hire someone in another country to drive remotely, so can find cheaper labor. They could also theoretically have them multitask driving multiple vehicles at once.

      Edit to clarify, I don’t think this is good, but I think people trying to make money (eg Musk) will push for these kinds of things regardless of the safety.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    25·
    5 days ago

    When are people ever going to figure out that Tesla’s “autopilot” is a freaking scam?

  • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    421·
    6 days ago

    Waymo is doing the same. Mostly self-driving but when they get stuck a human at a help center takes the sticks. There are a lot of edge cases in the real world so it makes sense to just have the car programmed to be very conservative and let a human deal with it.

  • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    6 days ago

    The self-driving taxis and humanoid robots companies like Tesla are developing are just a thinly disguised way of getting around immigration law. We’re a very long way away from having autonomous humanoid robots that can clean your house for you. But one remotely piloted by someone in Bangladesh wearing a haptic suit? If the tech was cheap enough, that sort of thing would be profitable.

    It’s effectively an extremely perverse and exploitive form of immigration. When we bring immigrants in, they typically take low-level jobs. But they also get opportunities to advance themselves further. Moreover, in the US at least, any children immigrants have on US soil automatically become US citizens. So yes, immigrants come in on the bottom of the social ladder, but they have an opportunity to climb.

    Here though? This is a way of getting all the labor we want from immigrants but without offering them the usual deal in return. And even worse, they won’t even be owed minimum wage.

    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      Not only that, there is now a middleman involved so the citizens still get screwed instead of being able to access cheap labour directly.