Vay’s Remote Driving Jobs: How Teledriving Works in Las Vegas

You’ve seen those electric Jaguars driving themselves—until they don’t. It’s all fun and games until the car gets stuck in a parking lot loop, or worse, it randomly blocks Kamala Harris’s motorcade because the AI decided today was a good day to troll the government. 

Well, self-driving still needs a human touch when things get froggy, and you can be that person—remotely driving the car like you’re controlling a robot on wheels.

This is Filip, and you’re watching Patch Notes, where we explore tech ideas that sound fake but somehow aren’t. Let’s talk teledriving.

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Here’s the pitch: German startup Vay is hiring “teledrivers” to control electric vehicles in Las Vegas remotely. You’re not behind the wheel—you’re behind a desk. 

Customers use the app to request a car, you drive it to their location, and then they hop in to take it from there. When they’re done, they leave it wherever they want, and you remotely whisk it off to the next client.

It’s like Uber, but without the awkward driver conversations about weather or NFTs.

Now, if you think you’re qualified, let’s run through the checklist:

Got a U.S. driver’s license and a clean record? Check.

Spent years honing your skills in Gran Turismo or Flight Simulator? Perfect.

Know your way around Google Docs? Great, because apparently, spreadsheets are also part of teledriving.

Oh, and you’ll need to pass a drug test, so no Mario Kart on mushrooms.

Once you’re hired, Vay puts you through their Remote Driving Academy—a boot camp for teledrivers where you’ll learn defensive driving techniques and how to not accidentally parallel park someone into oblivion.

Vay says teledriving is the bridge between human-driven cars and fully autonomous vehicles. Apparently, making robots drive without occasionally crashing into things is harder than Tesla’s marketing team led us to believe.

For customers, it’s cheaper than Uber at $0.30 per driving minute. For Vay, it doubles vehicle utilization. And for you? It’s a gig that finally justifies all those hours spent rage-quitting racing games.

Riht now, it’s all happening in Vegas, but Vay has big plans to expand into Europe, starting with Germany. If this works, it could change how car-sharing fleets operate, how developers think about autonomous systems, and how remote workers define “driving to work.”

So, is this the future of transportation, or just another gimmick? Let me know in the comments.

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