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Tesla Optimus Bots Were Remotely Operated at Cybercab Event

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217 points mfiguiere | 4 comments | 14 Oct 24 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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b0sk ◴[15 Oct 24 00:01 UTC] No.41843548[source]▶
Actually, I won't be surprised if it turns out that the 40 or so cybercabs were remote-controlled too.
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batch12 ◴[15 Oct 24 00:29 UTC] No.41843710[source]▶
Maybe that's the realistic future of 'self-driving' cars. A teledriver-assisted automous car. It just moves the cab driver from behind the wheel to behind a screen somewhere else.
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ilaksh ◴[15 Oct 24 01:34 UTC] No.41844059[source]▶
Waymo has been demonstrating fully self driving cars for years.

Teslas also do it, and truly necessary interventions are rare these days.

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1. pclmulqdq ◴[15 Oct 24 01:59 UTC] No.41844190[source]▶
Waymos have some very advanced teledriving features, and it's not clear to me how often the human is involved when you ride a Waymo.

I sort of hope that it's not that often, but I also thought the amazon store was automated.

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2. AlotOfReading ◴[15 Oct 24 02:21 UTC] No.41844309[source]▶
Waymo vehicles are not driven remotely. Remote assistants give the autonomy stack suggestions for how to proceed rather than drive the vehicle. This doesn't require a low latency connection and the robot is still capable of stopping when the situation changes or proceeding as soon as it's able to without a control handover.
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3. pclmulqdq ◴[15 Oct 24 03:20 UTC] No.41844587[source]▶
Yes, they are not usually driven remotely, but an operator can take the wheel in an emergency situation. Most of the interventions are "this plan or that one?" decisions from the teleoperators.

That still isn't really "autonomous," but it's a lot closer than anything Tesla has done. My question, though, is how frequent the interventions actually are.

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4. consteval ◴[15 Oct 24 19:11 UTC] No.41852045{3}[source]▶
It also doesn't scale, which is the big problem. Waymo works but excruciatingly mapping out the city and its routes. It's not a generalized autonomous driving algorithm.

Which is probably fine, but it does mean it will never make it to a lot of areas.