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Not necessarily. Everybody in this business is being careful and super paranoid about accidents causing massive PR and Regulatory set backs.

Otto's commercialization goals at this point don't include removing the human entirely. There'll still be a meat brain in the truck slowly deskilling but on standby ready to step in whenever higher level reasoning is needed to navigate.

It's not really important. It's not as if road works are going to prevent the push for self driving. They'll work around it, it doesn't matter when they figure it out.

Probably.

But it would be irresponsible to make roadworks appear and not make that information available for those that need it.

I'd assume roadworks are usually planned and can be checked beforehand especially when attempting bold experiments for the first time.

edit: removed sass

Yes, that is correct.