Would you want to own a self-driving car with remote driver(s)?
The remote driver(s) (whom you don't see or talk to) would be able to intervene at any time and take full responsibility for any accidents.
Absolutely not. Trusting my life to some random probably earning a bad wage in a call center for remote drivers? No.
Also such a company would have massive liabilities. You can’t just wave away killing someone with a contract clause
No. Driving requires a fast reaction time and with remote having an inherent lag in the feed -- count me out.
Would the remote driver be in India to save labor costs? That would raise your "ping" and make it unsafe.
No...pay attention or die is not a spectator game.
There is absolutely no way someone not at the risk of their life could pay attention well enough to drive for more than a few minutes.
I don't want to be an NPC in someone's game of American Taxi Simulator.
Not to mention, latency, communications failures, etc.
Own? No. But I would be ok with a taxi and a remote person operating the vehicle.
If i own it, it should have better options.
Never. Either I drive, someone else in the car drives (aligned incentive), partially autonomous (with me taking over) or fully autonomous.
I'd take all four of those options but never, ever remote drivers.
Seems impractical other than very specific situations - the latency is just cannot be overcome other than those specific scenarios.
Hell no. They need to pay me for that to happen.
100% I would. Basically taking a bus or Uber.
How would this work in tunnels?
Nope. It's okay to drive oneself (or walk, bike, take public transportation, or tax-funded transport for people with disabilities, etc), and it's important not to make burning fuel too easy. For too long we treat cars like an extension of our bodies, but it costs a lot more calories, and is far more polluting, to drive these heavy vehicles.