Offshore AV teleoperation

Kiwibot, started by a Colombian-American entrepreneur, has employed offshore teleoperators located in South America for its California AV conveyors for several years. In Colombia, the company employs students earning just $2 hour, but argues that these jobs provide upward mobility into promising STEM-based careers. Now this approach is being mimicked by other startups and considered for use with heavy vehicle fleets such as trucks. This signals that as technical barriers to fully autonomous driving mount, and the rate of progress slows, developers of self-driving solutions for commercial fleet operators will employ human-computer teams employing self-driving on-board and remote teleoperators.