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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 is just a click bait fear mongering article in the first place. Pre 2025 a Waymo would travel on average 17,000 miles per unusual situation and it would request input for the specific scenario. Even the video in the article doesn't show someone remotely "driving" the car.
Basically the article could be written as "Waymos have a fallback to request help from a human if they run into an unusual situation.".
They check the camera footage and give it advice essentially