If it were any other company I'd play American taxi cab simulator.
this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2024
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It's just like the indoor farm factory things, eventually everyone realises it's too expensive
Cost of car + remote driver infrastructure + remote driver (minimum) wage will be much higher than simpler car + local driver
Now we just have to wait for some startup to pitch "local drivers" as a revolutionary new idea.
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You missed the part about AI - Actual Intelligence
This sounds exactly like Amazon's "Just walk out" grocery store concept that actually required remote supervising by workers in India.
We DO NOT want Indians remote driving cars in America holy shit.
But they are self-driving. DON'T YOU DARE not appreciate that!
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Meep meep
Amazon stopped being able to deliver working products in 2016
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Mechanical Turks are my favorite trope of the 2020s.
This always the solution to these big, over promised AI projects... "what if i just pay someone a pittance to do the hard part."
Musk is a little whiney bitch that can't hold his word. Full autonomous my ass. His words are all lies.
What’s hilariously tragic is that he could very likely have his full self-driving if he would just shut his shit-spewing asshole of a mouth for a hot second, and spend some of his ungodly billions on the problem.
There are incredibly bright people out there who can make this stuff a reality. But, it takes paying them well, not shit-talking or overruling them, and giving them the environment for success—e.g., not taking away the radar from the cars.
He just wants to talk a big game without spending any real effort or money on the problem. And, it’s just sad, because he could have his FSD and look like a genius.
The lidar drama is why Tesla without Musk could overtake global EV market, but they have him.
It may well be a matter of opinion whether Tesla, even operating at its highest potential, could now overtake the likes of BYD, which is getting extensive help from its government. But, it’s reasonably clear that Tesla’s chances get thinner with every bad decision of Musk’s.
He fucked with the engineering, chasing pennies on critical components, like the lidar. He fucked with the crown jewel of the company—its Supercharger network—by destroying the team, and thereby slowing down rollouts and critical maintenance. He ran his mouth off and chased away folks—like me—who would have otherwise bought, by espousing pants-on-head-crazy crypto-bro viewpoints. Hell, his idea of PR is a poop emoji auto-responder.
It’s just frustrating to see such a great concept—the ubiquitous electric car—be fucked up so badly by the person with the most means to succeed.
It is almost like he is not a genius and just has generational wealth.
I mean when was the last time "the person who knows the most about manufacturing in the world" spent all their free time doing drugs, posting on Twitter, and fucking his employees trying to pump out kid number thirteen.
There is a word for someone who fucks it all up but still is left holding the money. Conman, that is the word.
Don't forget about spending thousands of hours in Diablo 4. And now he's eyeing up Path of Exile 2.
Hard working my ass, he spends more time on Twitter than I do at work.
To be fair it is probably not on purpose. He is just too stupid to make realistic estimates of what will be possible.
It is on purpose. It started with his first POS company, Zip2, when he built a fake chassis to make their server look bigger and more powerful to investors.
We have this requirement called truth in advertising, but it doesn't seem to apply to billionaires.
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Remotely-driven robotaxis seem like the worst option available. I'm imagining a whole cubicle farm LARPing GTA5.
The job post also notes that such a teleoperation center requires “building highly optimized low latency reliable data streaming over unreliable transports in the real world.” Tele-operators can be “transported” into the robotaxi via a “state-of-the-art VR rig,” it adds.
Oh man that's pretty hilarious for "autonomous vehicles"
Tesla would not be the first robotaxi company to use this method. In fact, it’s an industry standard. It was previously reported that Cruise, the robotaxi company owned by General Motors, was employing remote human assistants to troubleshoot when its vehicles ran into trouble
Oh, so this is actually completely normal and should not be news worthy...
Remote human intervention when automated systems fail should be expected and required to be honest with current technology. There are simply too many edge cases in the real world, even with the trillions of miles Tesla has trained their system on.
When will the intervention be called upon? How we react is defined by the context we have. Imagine being dropped into a pre accident situation without any context.
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Remote human intervention when automated systems fail should be expected and required to be honest with current technology.
The "human in the loop" is one of those things that sounds good but isn't at all in reality.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/30/a-neck-in-a-noose/
A human was literally sitting at the wheel as Uber's taxi ran someone over.
Driving is nothing but edge cases, and that's why maybe paying drivers to drive people around is better than some half-baked AI driving people under trucks and hoping a call center employee is paying enough attention to bail them out.
It's normal in the industry but the industry likes to tell the public otherwise so from time to time these articles pop up.
Amazon's just walk out shop, with AI looking with cameras what you bought, was actually run by indians remotely because the automation didn't quite work. Food delivery robots are run by people in low cost areas. Over guy runs multiple robots with a pont-and-click interface. That kind of thing. I'm sure autonomy is worked on but it's not fully autonomous yet.
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To take a job at Tesla is to be ok with getting shitcanned at any time for any reason
So most like any job these days
Fake it till you make enough investor money to hire remote humans
Space Karen is a fraud
It's been 7 hours of driving random people around the city, name after name I'll forget quick, then I see a name that brings my blood to a boil, an old bully/tormentor, I take over the car and deliver the script perfectly, he doesn't remember my voice, why would he? We head off and he zones out staring at his phone, completely oblivious to the fact he is heading towards his doom, we come to a train line and my internet connection 'drops', causing the vehicle to come to a complete stop, a minute later a large train smashes into a the car, completely destroying it and killing them before I can successfully reconnect to them.
And that's how to get away with murder.
It seems you've thought this through. Did you get an interview yet?
Just waiting on my video interview.
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Oh look, Crazy Taxi in real life!
What if your robot was just a guy?
Preferred prior experience: Midtown Madness (100+ hours), GTA (100+ hours), or comparative driving simulators.
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Eh. There are driverless taxis working really well in some cities already. I felt very safe riding in a waymo. Tesla is way late to that party, who cares?
A Waymo looks like this. The Tesla robotaxi looks like this - see anything missing?
That's right, all the sensors and hardware required to make safe, functioning autonomous car.
As long as Tesla keeps listening to the fundamentally flawed idea of Musk that "Humans drive using only their eyes, therefore autonomous cars don't require anything except a camera", they are destined to fail, as that system can't prevent crashing into things if it doesn't understand what it is looking at.
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So... Trains?
I guess it's not for live driving? The ping of any connection can't be good enough for that?
I guess it's not for live driving?
Oh yes, it is. They mean business.
The ping of any connection can't be good enough for that?
The internet infrastructure of any really existing city is not good enough if just a few thousand cars "suddenly" become unable to self-drive, and therefore need these thousands of remote guys with their VR glasses.
Or, maybe there will be only 50 of these VR guys anyway, and so it takes, let's say, 20 hours to move 1000 cars, or 60 hours to move 3000 cars...
BTW How much food and water do you carry in your car, usually?
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