Kind of like a VA but for self-driving car
Edit:The Correct Term might be tele-driving
Think about who gives feedback on the AI prompts.Most of the manual load is contracted away overseas
Scenario 1:
You're driving remotely and the connection goes down. The car then crashes into something.
Scenario 2:
You get clever: Whenever the connection goes down, the car automatically stops. The connection goes down, and the car now stops in the middle of an intersection, or the onramp to a ferry, or blocking emergency vehicles.
Scenario 3:
You get even more clever: Whenever the connection goes down, the car seeks a safe place to stop. The connection goes down, and the car runs over a collapsed pedestrian while looking for a safe place to stop.
You can't win.
So, some sort of remote colonialism. Better be sure they don't rebel.
Just because it happens doesn't make it easier to swallow.
"have a person in a cheap country" sounds casual to me.
When you say "remote control", though; the issues of trust come up in people mind. Those issues should exists when its onboard software you're trusting, too; but humans don't see it that way as easily.
How can you trust that your car isn't being driven by some methed up teenager playing 14 games of "carmageddon" at once for a "click farm" type arrangement?
... It never occurs to people to ask "how can i trust this software is better at carmageddon than the 14 year old?"
People are terrible at being "on active standby" like that. If they have to be really alert to the situation, it's better if they're really driving the car themselves than expecting them to recognize a bad situation and take over in time.
But it might be cool if I'm at the bar getting schwilly and then I call my mom to remote control me home.