'I can provide my customers peace of mind knowing there is always a human there to help if needed,' Vogt said. 'I don't know why I'd ever want to get rid of that.'
Many AV startups today use humans as remote supervisors, alongside safety drivers sitting behind the wheel.
Cruise's Vogt says the company's AVs on the roads in San Francisco currently rely on humans less than 1% of the time. But across hundreds, thousands or even millions of AVs, that would add up to a significant amount of time stopped on the road waiting for human guidance. Doubt has crept in as investors puzzle over how soon autonomous business will turn profitable. Simpler or slower AVs likeor last-mile delivery services operating on highways or on set, low-speed routes are likely to reach profitability first, but will still take years to get there.
"I am concerned that AV companies will rush to market without proving the safety is better than human-driven vehicles," he added. "But there are so many variables such as weather, you can take an edge case and then have to layer in all the different variants," she said."It's truly millions of outputs."In its track tests for cars, AB Dynamics employs a robot arm that it plans to retrofit on slow-moving mining and agricultural trucks to make them largely autonomous.
Within the next 12 months, British online food delivery and technology company Ocado Group Plc will roll out a small fleet of driverless delivery vehicles with autonomous vehicle software startup Oxbotica — backed by remote human supervisors — that will operate on just a few streets on set routes in a small UK city and never drive at speeds above 30 miles per hour.
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