CEO of self-driving car company admits that humans may always be part of the equation

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Autonomous cars might always need people, according to Cruise's CEO. (via thedrive)

, was the first company to be allowed to offer fully autonomous taxi services in America. Cruise’s CEO Kyle Vogt was asked if he could see a point where remote human oversight could be removed from the company’s autonomous vehicle fleet. His surprising response: “Why?” Edge cases in autonomous driving often require human intervention to get around, and currently, Cruise uses a staff of remote human operators to help with those situations.

Most autonomous vehicles on public roads currently use backup humans in remote control centers to assist them in “edge cases.” These edge cases are where the computer systems piloting the car get confused, which could be unusual situations such as a couch in the middle of the road or a child running after a ball into the street. The report suggests edge-case scenarios could be much more mundane.

seen throughout San Francisco earlier this year. Indeed, California law for autonomous vehicles still requires a two-way link from a car to a human operator and vice-versa. Unfortunately, it’s unclear how much these human operators will continue to affect Cruise, which reported losing

 

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