That's not quite how they're doing it, though. That BMW vallet image on the site is misleading. I watched some documentary recently where they talked about this.

They're intervening when the shitty AI can't figure something out, which is a lot. But they're not driving it remotely; the latency would be dangerous. They're telling the automation to back up and go around or to pull up to a certain point.

You still have to pay for all the lidar sensors and computers on the car. You're just paying the cheap labor to change the instructions when the ai can't complete the assignment as it currently estimates it.

You're seriously suggesting that we should trust powered deathtraps running at highway speeds to people who are completely disconnected from the actual risks of driving, and whose connection could suddenly cut out? That sounds like something that Phillip K. Dick would write about, and he would not be kind.

With this headline it seems as if this may have been their plan all along. Outsource labor to a poorer nation, who work for pennies on the dollar compared to their local counterpart with hopes that eventually they get autonomous driving to a flawless state, and then put both out of a job. Profit!