
#268: Francesca Favarò on Waymo's Human Fatigue Risk Managment Framework
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Waymo's History and Risks
Waymo was not developing the same type of technology that we are Working on today, which is level four ADS technology back in 2012. We were testing these very experimental technology with some of the Google employees that Had not really hands-on participated into the development So I was kind of maintaining some independence and what was observed really is that within a matter of two weeks These trained engineers who were told about all of the disclaimers and the caveats And who were being monitored while using this technology. They very quickly became Overreliant on it. It's part of a broader trend that is Studied within the human factors community something that in the paper we call the irony of motivation Which is this sort of
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