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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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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.