Cruise’s robotaxi business actually held aloft by team of remote (human) assistants
Cruise, the robotaxi company owned by General Motors, has been forced to downsize its operations over the past few weeks after a slew of crashes,. Over the weekend, the automated travel company suffered yet another humiliation: a New York Times article revealed that its self-driving vehicles aren’t actually driving themselves—at least, not all the time. Instead, teams of remote (human) assistants are tasked with helping the vehicles out of a jam when they run into particularly tricky driving situations.
