Interested in all things fedi, uspol at least for this year, technology. Loving Sharkey.
@Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world They may have more of them now (probably 4 seats usable really) but since their current fleet is tiny you can’t really deduce anything about what their fleet composition is going to be going forward from it.
@DragonAce@lemmy.world there’s really no evidence of that at all and their support staff is much smaller compared to the size of the fleet. You can also find plenty of examples of Waymos behaving in a way that human remote controlling them would never be doing. So it’s seems very unlikely that these vehicles are some kind of “mechanical turks”.
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world The closest example is Zoox. They did the same exact thing Tesla did and eventually had to apply for an exemption from the NHTSA. So no, this is not part of being evaluated with other robo-cabs and yes something bad did happen when Tesla ignored the precedent set by Zoox’s case and decided to self certify anyway despite NHTSA forcing Zoox to back off from a very similar self-certification.
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