Your Car Will Probably Be Driven By A Remote Human Before A Computer

If we've learned anything from Silicon Valley, it's to over-promise and under-deliver. And if we've learned anything else from Silicon Valley, it's that replacing humans with artificial intelligence is not nearly as easy as it sounds. Put these two tendencies together, and you get an awful lot of humans performing grunt work that tech companies previously wanted to automate away only to find they couldn't write algorithms that performed as well as any human could. The first examples that immediately jump to mind are content moderation on the major social networks, transcribing recordings from smart speakers, and Elon Musk's attempt to automate the Tesla assembly line only to admit "humans are underrated." Don't look now, but self-driving cars are a prime candidate to be the latest major "automation" technology that is performed not by a computer, but by a human you can't see.