Any AV company that's weren't serious has an operations team and there's a bunch of people in a room it we all wanted to look like NORAD in war games. There is debate over which of these is better but no matter how you slice it when a vehicle stops on a city street there's people around for too long that might only be a few seconds people get upset. If the company operating the AV doesn't have a human behind the scenes who are aware of that that's not an AV problem that's an operations problem.
San Francisco is ground zero for a lot of the conflicts between the tech sector and society at large, and increasingly that conflict is centering on AVs. This week the gang discusses the technical and social factors at play, and how some AV developer strategies are shifting. Plus, a discussion of Ford's new deal to use Tesla Superchargers.