Once again, "AI" is revealed to be an army of mechanical turks in a call center. - JWZ

the cruise CEO doing damage control (and lying their ass off) on the orange site makes sense, because all the former remote safety drivers I’ve talked to (admittedly none at Cruise) have been in agreement that self driving is absolutely fucked and the cars are essentially being remote controlled a majority of the time. some of the companies are also having what we engineers call fucking obvious problems like the high end GPUs they’ve packed into the cars overheating constantly, or the self driving software crashing due to bugs, both of which are situations that require immediate safety driver intervention

Fair enough, I will note he fails to specify the actual car to Remote Assistance operator ratio. Here's to hoping that the burstiness readiness staff is not paid pennies when on "stand-by".

it would be entirely consistent with what he is saying for the car to ask "should I run over this child" every few minutes, as long as it only takes the operator say six seconds to click NO

It's suspicious that the criticism is in terms of miles traveled and the response is in terms of time. My own car operates flawlessly 98% of the time in a driverless mode called "park."