RE: https://flipboard.com/@techcrunch/latest-techcrunch-stories-jbo08kpjz/-/a-Xt1-YqhjQ9GnOCIx00uWeA%3Aa%3A3199687-%2F0

I’d love to know what Google’s tele-operator numbers look like, if they’ve added headcount in the Philippines, what the real extent of tele-operation looks like,* and what the legal issues are with unlicensed foreigners remotely operating vehicles on US roads.**

*I’d guess we have remote operators assisting at some point in every ride, and that Google will lie about this for as long as possible.
**This is the US, a third world country in a Gucci belt, we don’t have regulation here.

@prietschka Good John Berry thread on badsky about that awful chart:
https://bsky.app/profile/aniccia.bsky.social/post/3mi32wume322l
John Berry (@aniccia.bsky.social)

@kirstenkorosec.bsky.social made a fundamental analysis mistake the premise of this article, mixing 2 kinds of Waymo data: - 6 official announcements of having just reached an exact rides/wk milestone, eg 500k/wk - a stmt in February they were doing >400k rides/wk https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/27/waymo-skyrocketing-ridership-in-one-chart/

Bluesky Social