[tengbretson]

I was once in a waymo stopped at a red light. Prior to the light turning green I felt a split second where the car's brake had been released, anticipating the change and then accelerating immediately when the light changed.

Since this experience I've just assumed all waymos have some warehoused human drone pilot actually controlling it.

[akanet]

Waymo remote operators cannot drive the car

[slim]

how do you know ?

[Marsymars]

> I was once in a waymo stopped at a red light. Prior to the light turning green I felt a split second where the car's brake had been released, anticipating the change and then accelerating immediately when the light changed.

This seems like it would be fairly straightforward to program, if not for all lights, at least for a lot (e.g. say half) of lights.

[thebruce87m]

There are many other possibilities such as the system having learned the timings or another vehicle in the fleet observing the lights turn red at the other part of the junction.

The least likely possibility is a person controlling the vehicle directly over a variable latency connection that may fail completely at any time.

[thenthenthen]

Behind all the new smart city tech I encountered here in Shenzhen and Shanghai are actually human operators (drones, cars, vending machines). You can find the job ads online.

[rcxdude]

Why would you assume this from that experience?