It's a bit harsh, but not unreasonable. You can buy this level of self-driving at many car dealerships right now. If you take the Udacity self-driving course, you could build this. Doesn't mean you're ready to ship a road-ready product. Remote control helps some, but it won't get you out of trouble. By the time the remote driver is connected and has situational awareness, it's too late.

This isn't webcrap, where it doesn't really matter if it fails now and then. People die when self-driving vehicles screw up. Especially with heavy vehicles. California DMV doesn't allow self-driving heavy vehicles on the road yet, and that's probably a good decision.

If YC is going to fund stuff like this, they need to get some avionics people on the team. Before they kill somebody.