my friend bought a ride from a waymo for shits and giggles. i was actually intrigued about how the car made decisions on its own and sorta nerd sniped me to learn more about machine learning (not llms).
there’s probably some evil thing the self driving car companies are doing that im not aware of, but I was just interested in the ML aspect.
I though all Waymo driving decisions were performed using mechanical Turk?
Essentially what they do is have one human operator watching ~20 vehicles at the same time. When one of the vehicles gets into a situation that the automation can’t handle, it alerts the operator to take manual control. The cars aren’t being remotely operated 100% of the time.