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And these foreign crowd workers know the local traffic rules? Maybe they even have regular drivers licenses?
I think the interventions here are more like: "that's a trash can someone pushed onto the road - let me help you around it" rather than: "let me drive you all the way to your destination."
It's usually not the genuinely hard stuff that stumps AI drivers - it's the really stupid, obvious things it simply never encountered in its training data before.
Saw this blog post recently about waymo's sim setup for generating synthetic data and they really do seem to be generating pretty much everything in existence. The level of generalization of the model they seem to be using is either shockingly low or they abort immediately at the earliest sign of high perplexity.
I'm guessing it's the latter, they need to keep accidents to a minimum if they're ever going to get broad legislation to legalise them.
Every single accident is analysed to death by the media and onlookers alike, with a large group of people wanting it to fail.
This is a prime example, we've known about the human intervention for a while now but period people seem surprised that those people are in another country.