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Waymo admits that its autopilot is often just guys from the Philippines
(www.techspot.com)
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this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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This article doesn’t really say anything new or alarming. Already knew that remote humans could take control of the vehicle if the AI got stuck. There’s no data here describing how often humans are intervening, so the only thing this is trying to get you angry about is the fact Waymo is using more foreign workers than previously thought.
There was a video of it somewhere months ago. They're not taking the wheel; they're just telling the automation to stop what it's doing and give it alternate commands it can actually execute. They showed a gridlock of waymo, they went back to a car that could actually get out of the situation, told it to go park, then told the ones in front of it to back up until the locked car could get out.
Seems like something an autonomous swarm should already be able to do.
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i mean, the only thing i'm seeing that seems like i should be argle bargling about is the potential frequency of takeovers and the drivers licensing of the operators. i would want a human taking over from the ML car if it is confused, the ML system i had to work with at my job needed constant handholding.