I work on Tesla's Autopilot team. I watch hours of customers' driving videos every day and am monitored constantly.
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A worker on Tesla's Autopilot team described what it's like labeling the influx of driver videos.

Some quotes from the article:

There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone’s life. It feels odd to see someone’s daily drive, but it’s also an important part of correcting and refining the program.

We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you’re just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.

Anytime you’re not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren’t working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.

  • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    These people have just about zero idea about how the engineering process works, and it shows.

    Well, now that’s obviously not true. They wouldn’t have drivable cars if they had no idea how to engineer one…

    • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      I once paid an electrician to do some electrical work in my house, therefor I am an electrician, otherwise, how would I have working power in my house?

      • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
        05·
        3 months ago

        Would you claim the company he worked for has zero understanding of how to do electrical work?

        • Venat0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          I would claim you have near zero understanding of how to comprehend anything that you’re reading…

          • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
            12·
            2 months ago

            Maybe, but I’m more thinking you’re too dumb to understand an analogy.

    • Voyajer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      3 months ago

      He’s referring to Elon himself, and I presume whomever else instantiated their productivity metrics.

      • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
        0·
        3 months ago

        Ok, so another of Elons companies sends rockets to space, so again, they clearly now engineering…

        • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
          0·
          3 months ago

          The engineers who work for him know engineering. Elon fancies himself an engineer, but he comes across as someone who knows about as much about aerospace as any kid after a few rounds of Kerbal Space Program. I’ve listened to his technical interviews on the Raptor engine and other stuff, he just spews pseudointellectual boilerplate you can get from any generic sci/space YouTuber.

          • Murvel@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I’m not talking about Elon engineering fricking rockets by himself, I’m talking about the dude in the comment thinking that Elons companies doesn’t have an engineering culture that can deliver, which is plain just not true.

            I mean hate on the man, I don’t give a damn but don’t be dishonest is all I’m saying