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Reported Waymo ride failures and the challenge of automating physical jobs
A user says Waymo cars fail on one in 20 or 30 rides around San Francisco and need remote operators to rescue them, despite having fully mapped areas and vision-language models to help plan around tricky situations.
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A user says Waymo cars still fail on one in 20 or 30 rides around San Francisco and need remote operators to rescue them. They argue that these hard-to-handle situations cast doubt on AI automating physical jobs soon, and predict similar difficulties for vision-enabled remote AI workers and robots.
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