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The problem is that, unlike Uber, they need to pay the cost to maintain their fleet of vehicles.

I’m guessing they aren’t comfortable enough with their tech to deploy it everywhere. What happens if it starts snowing on your trip to Denver, you’re asleep, you’re in traffic, and there isn’t sufficient internet access for a safety driver to intervene in an emergency?

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I'd assume it would have failsafe upon failsafe. E.g. in your example it would pull over at the earliest safe location while waking up the driver because the remote backup was unavailable.

A L4 system should be able to find a safe spot and park there until you wake up

That’s assuming that they have a truly L4 system. I don’t think it’s that simple. Danger can go from 0 to 100 fast in a car. There are so many corner cases that it isn’t hard to imagine a few stacking up and serious accidents happening.

That Phoenix, with its very clear weather, is the only market with their taxi service is damning.

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