Google Paying Arizona Residents $20/Hr To Test Self-Driving Cars (mashable.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report on Mashable: Google is paying Arizona residents $20 per hour to test its self-driving vehicles. The 'Self-Driving Vehicle Operator/Operations Associate' needs to have a clean driving record, no criminal history, a BS or a BA degree and the ability to type at least 40 words per minute, according to the job listing. The job involves driving 6-8 hours a day in a two person team, five days a week while monitoring the car's systems with "constant focus" and filling up daily reports. "[Test drivers] give our engineers feedback about how our cars are driving and interacting with others on the road, and can take control of the vehicle if needed," Brian Torcellini, head of operations for Google's Self-Driving Car testing program, told The Arizona Republic. The job listing comes about a month after Google announced it would expand its self-driving car testing program to Phoenix, Arizona. At that announcement, Google said it wants to test how autonomous vehicles behave in Phoenix's desert conditions and high temperatures.

Comments

Re:Am I the only one

[Anonymous Coward]

degree is the new high school diploma. It means you can read, write, play well with others and follow something to completion even if bits are boring.

Re:$20 an hour for a BA/BS degree?

[TapeCutter]

There are literally tens of millions of people in the US who never got past HS but still show up every day for far less than $20/hr. Requiring a crash test dummy to hold a degree is fucking ridiculous, if they want real world testing conditions then hire a bunch of frat boys, don't pay them, just put a keg in the back seat. If the autopilot can cope with that, then it can cope with picking up drunks in the early hours of Sunday morning. For extreme testing conditions use a mothers club and a couple of casks of red wine.

Disclaimer: Ex taxi driver.