Andrew Miller

Just don't knock over that cone.

Or even goes so far as to say, here is, I can see on your map, go to point A.

then go to point B, then go to point C, and at point C, you will no longer be confused.

That's what they call remote assistance.

So is that driving?

People have differences of opinions on this.

I say it's not.

I say that the remote assistance is what it says it is.

It's a human providing additional input to the computer to make its decisions.

But yeah, there are cases where the computer cannot figure it out on its own and it does need help.

Yes.

It's giving an instruction to the computer.

Well, what you can do is you can press a button and speak to, it's not one of those remote operators, but you can speak to a concierge, if I can use that term, and explain what the situation is, that there's an emergency or there's something of concern.

And then the remote operator is able to send messages to the car.

The typical thing that we want a self-driving car to do is,

in any situation, is if it's genuinely uncertain or there's a problem, to reach a safe position, which normally means pull over to the side of the road, come to a full and complete stop, and then wait for further directions.

There are situations where you can imagine that would be a bad thing, like if there's an earthquake.

But

But under normal circumstances, that's the that's what it does.

So you've got limited ability to you can't override, but you can talk to a human who has some capacity to override.