It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
That’s like a normal taxi with extra steps!
scammers pull the same shit over the world since the mechanical turk. at this point the joke’s on us.
This is gonna kill people from the input lag alone.
ahahahahahaha!!
That’s freaking hilarious. Muskie is an idjit.
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 (the vehicles appear to have run into trouble every four to five miles). Google’s Waymo is also thought to employ the same practice, as does Zoox, the robotaxi firm owned by Amazon.
Ah, the old mechanical Turk trick. This time with chance of man slaughter.
Manslaughter is just an unavoidable risk in the name of short term profit, but we can counter it with thoughts and prayers /s
I thought the machine and Robot are gonna do everything lol
That’s expensive bro. Just get a poor person to do it for next to nothing.
Oh …I’m not bro I’m a female 😊
Hey, don’t limit yourself! Females can be bros. I have a couple myself.
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.
Not only that, there is now a middleman involved so the citizens still get screwed instead of being able to access cheap labour directly.
Ah yes, you know what’s better than a taxi driver? A taxi driver who relies on a camera with a limited field of vision, experiences input and video lag, and receives none of the tactile sensations that allow drivers to gauge road conditions.
also one that has no personal stake in the safety of their driving
Yeah, but you’re ignoring one thing. I don’t have to sit awkwardly hoping the driver doesn’t talk to me. The risk/reward here might be screwed but I live dangerously.
Plus I welcome the opportunity to sue/fuck-over elon.
People who don’t drive themselves will be responsible for the UI of all this.
This really just comes down to people in a certain income brackets are uncomfortable being in close contact with a working class person.
That’s why they don’t like trains, that’s why they don’t like taxis.
I just love we have this nice simple solution to fix traffic congestion and its been around for so long. It even hurts when people say “im forced to take public transit” like really? Owning a car is not a right. I personally do not get the hate for public transportation.
My father when he visits the city to see me refuses to use the subway, even though it’s a five minute ride from where he parks his car - he ubers instead. It’s because he is frightened being trapped in a box with the poors.
When i got into work, coworkers asked me how i got in and i said Subway, they joked about having to avoid getting stabbed.
My friends are voting conservative in the upcoming election because they’ve seen too many poor people on the street engaging in anti-social behaviour (being drunk, and talking loud)
It’s fucking insanity to me.
mindblowing that people think you just get stabbed all the time on the subway. I live in Toronto and have taken buses, trains, streetcars, the SRT and the subway. The only complaint i have had is that I wish there was more funding for public transit to improve service. I have seen drunks and homeless people on the subway/bus/streetcar before, but never have had a problem. What people SHOULD be making an issue about is how these people end up in this situations, and how we can help them, and also be proactive and avoid it from happening in the future to more people.
It’s a good thing that’s not what’s happening, but I guess that doesn’t help the “Musk Bad” agenda
is planning to hire a human team to remotely troubleshoot its robotaxi operations.
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.
Sounds an awful lot like they’re going to need someone to remote pilot those cars when they get stuck. It also sounds like the system will have at least some latency, and will probably rely entirely on cameras, since Musk doesn’t build LiDAR or other non-visual sensors into his cars anymore! Anyway, sorry if that disrupts your, “I’m a sad dork who feels the need to defend the world’s richest man even though he makes hundreds of stupid, childish decisions that are clearly detrimental to the companies he owns,” agenda.
So does he now want people working from home or not?
He’s very inconsistent.
Oh, don’t mistake. They’ll still have to go into an office, they’ll just be driving the cars remotely, most likely.
3 weeks later:
“Your honour, it was the ping!”
Objection! Speculation!
Prosecution calls first witness; my teenage neighbor nemesis, his 28.8k baud modem, and Warcraft2
“How was your day, honey ?”
“I killed thirty people in a pile-up on Hwy74 remotely. I’ll be a little late.”
🤣🤣
“Remotely control”, or “drive” if you will.
Only with worse vision, worse reflexes and probably worse pay
And without survival instinct or adrenaline to distract during decisions, great!
Crazy Taxi: The Movie!
Worse pay and worse working conditions is the killer app of “tech” these days.
We already knew this was coming.
And to quote the comic:
“Crowdsourced steering” doesn’t sound quite as appealing as “self driving.”
This, but it’s identifying the Muslim to send to the camps. And if you fail, they force you to take a selfie to appear in the captcha yourself
I’m in, with generations of GTA experience
