>A German company, Vay, offers a rental car service where the cars are driven by a remote driver to the customer, who then takes over driving the car. At the end of the rental, a remote driver takes over again to take the car away. The trained remote drivers sit in a driving station, with a steering wheel, foot pedals, screens, headphones, and even tactile feedback for things like bumps on the road.Vay says the rental rate cost would be "about half of what a current car-sharing service costs." If he is talking about car-rental services that deliver cars to customers by on-site drivers, like this defunct San Francisco car rental company, then the claim about half the cost seems right.Vay's founder used Las Vegas as a testing ground for the service and expects to launch in Germany soon.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/25/raring-to-go-the-german-remote-driving-firm-that-hopes-to-make-private-car-ownership-redundant
>>28642992MAWTTB (might as well take the bus)
Driver will be Indian
Just more bullshit that’ll never happen. The drivers can’t be to far away because of latency. So you’re not going to save much over just having the Somalis be in the car driving. Something like this might work for long hall trucking, because the trucks could theoretically run 24/7.>inb4 but drones manUS military drones are operated by someone on the airstrip for take offs and landings because of the latency. Once they’re at cruising altitude then they hand it off to the guy in Nevada.
>>28642992from self driving AI to Actually Indians, impressive
