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There are autonomous cars on the road right now driving people around without anyone in the front seat. The article even admits this.
This entire article is just complaining that it's happening slower than predicted as companies refine the technology, like that's somehow a bad thing.
It's still happening.
AVs don't have a driver, instead they have 1.5 operations staff per vehicle.
It's not happening.
Cruze has had a lot of self driving issues.
Waymo also has some human operators for if their cars run into issues, but they report that one ops team member is able to cover multiple vehicles.
I haven't heard about Waymo being below 1:1. Do you have a source? I'd love to read it.
From a reddit ama 3 years ago.
And here's where they discuss what their operators do: https://old.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/n031vq/you_voted_and_were_excited_to_chat_about_waymo/gwhnzib/
Thanks for the links. As I read it, none of that is saying their ratio is below 1:1, just that they switch between vehicles as needed.
And the "what their operators do" link sounds like they are the equivalent of a driving instructor sitting in the passenger seat, giving instructions but not "directly controlling" the vehicle.
During testing, sure... That's not going to be the long term value.
@ajsadauskas @technology #musk is a huckster, a con man, a man of chaos. Will no one put him in his place? Tesla needs to ditch him.