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We still have Test Drivers behind the wheel as a last resort, but we regularly give passenger rides with zero or low disengagements.

As a real-world example: we have a couple who uses our self-driving taxi service multiple times a day every day (The Grims), and their rides are ~95+% autonomous.



You mean 95% of their rides are entirely autonomous or their typical ride is 95% autonomous?

I remember how voice to text got to 95% in the nineties. It's used for a lot of things these days, still not for safety-critical tasks.


A typical ride is 95% autonomous.

A long way to go for sure, but having been at this just less than a year, we're feeling good!


So how do you get rid of the human backup driver? Until they go, this technology has negative cost-effectiveness. Remote manual control at slow speed for difficult situations? Dispatching a backup driver?




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