Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, recently noted that when the company's robotaxis encounter unusual situations, they may request real-time input from a remote response agent, receiving...
There was a video of it somewhere months ago. They’re not taking the wheel; they’re just telling the automation to stop what it’s doing and give it alternate commands it can actually execute. They showed a gridlock of waymo, they went back to a car that could actually get out of the situation, told it to go park, then told the ones in front of it to back up until the locked car could get out.
Seems like something an autonomous swarm should already be able to do.
There was a video of it somewhere months ago. They’re not taking the wheel; they’re just telling the automation to stop what it’s doing and give it alternate commands it can actually execute. They showed a gridlock of waymo, they went back to a car that could actually get out of the situation, told it to go park, then told the ones in front of it to back up until the locked car could get out.
Seems like something an autonomous swarm should already be able to do.