The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.
Realistically, how much can she do from a cubicle in the Philippines?
Maybe driverless cars should have remained a relic of 80s Schwarzenegger movies.
Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
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Re: Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
#12So the guy is in the car and he's concerned about catching his flight but when the operator asks him to do something in the waymo app he doesn't want to do it. Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?
Could it be that Waymo should just be able to stop the car? It doesn't seem at all ridiculous to you that he is already on the phone with them, and then they just read the script to tell him to pull out his phone and fire up the app? Just what I want is to ride in a car with Comcast level of customer service.
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It's autos, so wouldn't the phrase be "Tesla is laps down from Waymo"?
Re: Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
#14The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.
I guess the only option they have is "pull over" which in this case just caused the car to continue circling looking for a safe place to pull over. If they had an actual kill switch, we'd probably be watching another video of some guy on a call to waymo support while stuck in the middle of a highway.
Re: Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
#15So the guy is in the car and he's concerned about catching his flight but when the operator asks him to do something in the waymo app he doesn't want to do it. Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?
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Re: Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
#16The video is wild - Waymo support apparently struggles to remotely control the car.
I guess the only option they have is "pull over" which in this case just caused the car to continue circling looking for a safe place to pull over. If they had an actual kill switch, we'd probably be watching another video of some guy on a call to waymo support while stuck in the middle of a highway.
> If they had an actual kill switch
I'm unfamiliar - we have these in train cars, did the architects behind driverless techshit not think it was necessary?
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#17I usually think it's a stretch when people compare new tech to old sci-fi stories, but "brilliant machine just runs in circles endlessly and nobody can stop it" is straight out of I, Robot.
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#18Can we please get some clarification on "trapped" from someone who's used a Wayno? Surely the driverless car hasn't locked him inside. Right? Surely every driverless vehicle ought to have a button that when pressed gracefully stops the car so the passengers can safely exit.
> Surely the driverless car hasn't locked him inside. Right?
Every (modern) car I’ve been in, driverless or not, will lock the doors once the vehicle is in motion - automakers are not in the habit of letting passengers fall into the road like that. Just imagine the lawsuits…
Re: Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess the only option they have is "pull over" which in this case just caused the car to continue circling looking for a safe place to pull over. If they had an actual kill switch, we'd probably be watching another video of some guy on a call to waymo support while stuck in the middle of a highway.
> If they had an actual kill switch I'm unfamiliar - we have these in train cars, did the architects behind driverless techshit not think it was necessary?
Train cars? As in the vehicle on a track where an immediate stop is almost never more dangerous?
Re: Man trapped inside driverless Waymo car as it spins in circles
#20So the guy is in the car and he's concerned about catching his flight but when the operator asks him to do something in the waymo app he doesn't want to do it. Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?
> Could it be that he'd rather keep filming for internet notoriety than stop filming and actually solve his problem?
The guy kept filming for under sixteen seconds after asking about and receiving clarification that she is unable to intervene with the car and needs him to use the app. I like the idea that this somehow indicates bad faith or ineptitude in your estimation.