Wired: Self-Driving Cars Have a Secret Weapon: Remote Control

"For an industry based around the idea of ripping control away from the oh-so-fallible human, a system that plugs one back in seems counterintuitive. But as would-be robo-car makers race to hit the streets, they’re grappling with all the practicalities that stand between developing technology and deploying it. One thing they’ve realized is that no matter how good their system, no matter how constrained its operating conditions, they can’t yet reproduce that most remarkable human ability—to see a complex scene and decide what to do, especially in a world built for and populated by other carbon-based lifeforms."

https://www.wired.com/story/phantom-teleops/