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GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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The title isn't news at all as every single trustworthy autonomous driving solution MUST HAVE human operators somewhere to take over but the actual article is a good summary of Cruise's current situation and I'd guess the competition as well.

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

#3

The title isn't news at all as every single trustworthy autonomous driving solution MUST HAVE human operators somewhere to take over but the actual article is a good summary of Cruise's current situation and I'd guess the competition as well.

Where is the article does it even support the title? I'll reread it but I didn't see anything about human operators.

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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post #3

The title isn't news at all as every single trustworthy autonomous driving solution MUST HAVE human operators somewhere to take over but the actual article is a good summary of Cruise's current situation and I'd guess the competition as well.

Where is the article does it even support the title? I'll reread it but I didn't see anything about human operators.

> "Half of Cruise’s 400 cars were in San Francisco when the driverless operations were stopped. Those vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle. The workers intervened to assist the company’s vehicles every 2.5 to five miles, according to two people familiar with is operations. In other words, they frequently had to do something to remotely control a car after receiving a cellular signal that it was having problems."

Title of the post should be edited though since it's not the headline of the piece and this information, while interesting, isn't the main thrust of the article.

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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The title isn't news at all as every single trustworthy autonomous driving solution MUST HAVE human operators somewhere to take over but the actual article is a good summary of Cruise's current situation and I'd guess the competition as well.

> staff intervened to assist Cruise's vehicles every 2.5 to five miles

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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It's not an allegation. It's the same as using human feedback for tuning large language models. There are no autonomous cars currently regardless of what is written on the marketing brochures. In various "emergency" situations the cars phone home and ask a human operator to take over the controls.

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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post #3

The title isn't news at all as every single trustworthy autonomous driving solution MUST HAVE human operators somewhere to take over but the actual article is a good summary of Cruise's current situation and I'd guess the competition as well.

Where is the article does it even support the title? I'll reread it but I didn't see anything about human operators.

It's buried pretty deep all the way at the end.

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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post #7

It's not an allegation. It's the same as using human feedback for tuning large language models. There are no autonomous cars currently regardless of what is written on the marketing brochures. In various "emergency" situations the cars phone home and ask a human operator to take over the controls.

The latency on that has to be massive.

Re: GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving

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post #7

It's not an allegation. It's the same as using human feedback for tuning large language models. There are no autonomous cars currently regardless of what is written on the marketing brochures. In various "emergency" situations the cars phone home and ask a human operator to take over the controls.

There is an emergency every 2-5 miles?
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