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Originally Posted by Brupal
Fuzz, you are being ridiculous. When Waymo started out they too had a driver behind the wheel. In Austin the safety monitor (who sits in the passenger seat) doesn’t have access to the steering wheel or pedals, the car is clearly driving itself and you cannot dispute that. In San Francisco the safety monitor is sitting in the driver’s seat because in order to get clearance to operate a robotaxi the company applying must demonstrate 50,000 miles of exactly such proof of concept. Waymo had to do it, Tesla has to do it, and subsequent competitors will have to do it. Once again this monitor is not interacting with the vehicle, they are there because they are required to be there.
Now my question to Wormius was what was he disputing - the concept of autonomous rideshare? Because as you so wisely have pointed out, Waymo has proven the concept and now Tesla is completing the requirements to do so too. So it’s not impossible, it’s not even implausible, it’s happening. There’s no denying it’s happening. And I will gladly circle back to this discussion the day that Tesla removes the safety driver as we know they one day will.
And I cannot resist, but Fuzz you have spelled the word “enough” incorrectly three different times. Have you spelled it incorrectly so often your spell check thinks that is the way to spell it? I cannot accept your libellous posts as legitimate as long as you continue to misspell “enough”.
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You might want to dictionary that one. My spell checker has given up on me, it appears. I can't really blame it. And the safety driver does interact with the vehicle, they use the door latch on the passenger side to initiate an override. We know this because they've had to do it and it has been recorded.