Waymo is the benchmark: data collection with human supervision
binarybits · x · 2026-08-27
Author clarifies that the actual AV leader, Waymo, collected tens of millions of dollars of real-world data with safety drivers. This is analogous to real-world robot actions with human supervision or teleop. The conclusion suggests robots might follow a similar path with human oversight rather than purely unsupervised data collection.
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