Robotaxi companies won’t say how often remote operators intervene

Autonomous conveyance companies are refusing to disclose cardinal details astir their usage of distant assistance teams, including however often these workers are forced to intervene to assistance their self-driving cars.

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) had asked robotaxi companies to disclose the accusation arsenic portion of an probe by his bureau into the usage of distant assistance operators (RAO). The senator's bureau sent letters to 7 robotaxi companies - Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Amazon's Zoox - seeking accusation astir the usage of distant workers to show the driverless vehicles and occasionally intervene erstwhile the vehicles nee …

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