This has a very calm voice-over for a scary thing that is happening in Berlin right now.
Car+Driver alerted me to this one here. It is called Vay, pronounced "Way".
It is a hail-and-ride system where the customer (like the lady in the video with a nice bottom) does the driving.
But the car gets to the customer by being driven remotely from what looks like a call-centre.
And when the customer has got to their destination, a remote driver takes it on to the next customer.
So many questions:
- What if the customer leaves it in the middle of a busy road? The remote driver may not be ready to move it on.
- What if the remote driver fancies a bit of fun? Can they take over control?
- Can the remote driver have a couple of beers first?
- What if the customer has a couple of beers first? Or fancies a kip? Can they ask the remote driver to take them all the way?
- Who are you supposed to vent your road-rage at when a remote driver cuts you up?
And finally, what happens when the remote driver is taking the vehicle at a reasonable speed along a busy main road and they see this?
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