Why driverless vehicles just can’t quit humans

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commercial delivery service using driverless trucks between Dallas and Houston in Texas

Aurora isn’t the only autonomous vehicle company that hasn’t quite been able to quit humans. When Tesla launched its robotaxi service in June in Austin, Texas, the cars had human “safety monitors” in the passenger seats.

Even the more established self-driving taxi services, which don’t have anyone inside the car, still have humans behind the scenes. In China, Baidu’s robotaxis launched with “remote human operators” who could take control of the cars if necessary.

why can’t supposedly superior machines cope without them? Because machines and humans are good at different things. Machines don’t get tired, bored, drunk or distracted, but they struggle with real-world “edge cases” that require contextual awareness and intuition, such as how best to navigate a blockage on the road, or what a construction worker waving his arms around is trying to tell you.

For issues on AI displacing humans....and the viability, esp with regard to safety