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"AI-driven scooters, controlled remotely from the cloud"

controlled remotely from the cloud sounds to me like shadow-workers.

Or, you know, they get directions to the charging station from a server.

Which is more likely, they solved vehicle autonomy or they pay someone to control their scooters to make it look like they solved it?

vehicle autonomy requirements for a scooter are a lot lower than for a car. For one a scooter can't run somebody over so.

Yes no problem if the scooter drives in front of someone and trips them, or crosses a street at red, or doesn't recognise a manhole and falls in, ...

But not nearly low enough to be allowed as such on a public road.

> controlled remotely from the cloud sounds to me like shadow-workers.

<shrug>

One worker can drive dozens of scooters to chargers over the course of a day. China has lots of people and low labor costs.

A tool with a camera and other sensors you can log into remotely and drive wherever you like in Washington (for example) and then have it loiter while it beams data back to china. Sounds like a plan!

Why hasn't this movie been made already?!?

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