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Re:U.S. Judge Rejects Uber’s Proposed $100M Settlement with ... by lallysingh on Friday August 19, 2016 @07:59AM (#12319429)
To their advantage:

1) Plenty of cash coming in for research

2) Use to skirting laws that get in their way - so they may just start cutting back on costs later. Maybe have the human operator remote in, instead of actually sit in the car.

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Re:U.S. Judge Rejects Uber’s Proposed $100M Settlement with ... by cmdrfred on Friday August 19, 2016 @08:35AM (#12319566)
Number 2 is a good idea until you realize most uber drivers are lower income people with relatively high latency connections. Add in that most of them will probably be on WiFi and its a non-starter.
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Re:U.S. Judge Rejects Uber’s Proposed $100M Settlement with ... by lallysingh on Friday August 19, 2016 @10:47AM (#12320357)
I was thinking more about adding a high-quality custom a/v/control setup directly to the car, with "drivers" going to some office with a crap-ton of monitors.
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Re:U.S. Judge Rejects Uber’s Proposed $100M Settlement with ... by cmdrfred on Friday August 19, 2016 @11:38AM (#12320789)
That is a lot of trust you are putting into the cell network.
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