These Humans Are Teaching Cars to Drive

Autonomous cars are only as good as the human drivers they learn from — so the people who teach these systems how to drive need to be excellent drivers themselves. To get a look at what it takes to do this job, Bloomberg Technology’s Aki Ito recently joined two vehicle operators who work for self-driving car startup Aurora Innovation Inc. on a test drive in the chaos of downtown San Francisco. This is an episode of Next Jobs, a mini-documentary series about careers of the future.

Video by Victoria Blackburne-Daniell, David Nicholson and Brian Schildhorn

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