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sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled

www.the-independent.com

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Dozens of empty Waymos invade neighborhood in Atlanta leaving neighbors baffled

www.the-independent.com

sanitation@lemmy.radio to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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The company says it has addressed a routing behavior that explained the odd patterns
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    What are waymos?

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      Google’s remote driving taxi service

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        Oh, they are Google? Didn’t know that. Thought it was some startup.

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          Yes, and they’re not autonomous as they market them. They’re drived by AI (actually, Indians)

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            Remotely? Like, a drving game?

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              Partially. If they get stuck a human is alerted to take over remotely. I think they are Filipinos though, based on some other news here.

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                For more info: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines

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                  So maybe this is just Filipinos intimidating someone in this neighborhood who pissed them off?

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                ffs

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      Driverless Taxis

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        Ah ok

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