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

Posted by BeauHD on from the extreme-weather-conditions dept.

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.

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  1. Am I the only one by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    slightly horrified that they're asking for somebody with a degree, and for a $20/hr job no less...

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  2. Re:Arbitration Clause by stephanruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are no pedestrians in Santa Clara or Mountain View. I'm serious.

    Clearly, you were not stuck in traffic yesterday during the two conventions and the game.

  3. B.A./B.S. Degree by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are these driver-less cars are so sophisticated that they require a college-educated person to sit behind the wheel? Or is this like a law firm requiring a college degree for a filing clerk position?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/business/college-degree-required-by-increasing-number-of-companies.html

  4. Job listing violates 1964 civil rights act by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Google better watch out our they will have lawsuits....their job listing lists no criminal history as a requirement which is illegal under the civil rights act of 1964 (enforced by the equal employment opportunity commission). Simple existence of a past criminal record is not sufficient to deny employment; it must be directly relevant to the job. EEOC has several guidelines to determine relevancy (basically 3 guidelines - severity, relation to job position, likelihood of recidivism [majority of crimes committed over 10 years don't qualify for employment denial]).