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According to foreign media reports, the car is not ready for large-scale commercial deployment, but with the development of technology, most companies hope to develop multi tier security technology for autopilot. Including Aurora, Amazon's self driving start-up, which has developed a remote monitoring system similar to air traffic controllers to help increase public acceptance of robotic taxis. Aurora, headquartered in Palo Alto, is developing a system called teleassist to improve software, computers, sensors and vision systems so that its test fleets in the San Francisco Bay area and Pittsburgh can handle various road conditions. The purpose of this technology is to enable trained technicians in remote facilities to access the vehicle's sensors when needed, and to provide advice and guidance for abnormal situations, such as parking the vehicle safely on the side. Sterling Anderson, co-founder and chief product officer of Aurora, said that although companies such as phantom auto and starsky robotics, the start-up of self driving trucks, are testing remote control systems, their teleassist systems are not working the same way. "When necessary, our system will give an alarm to the remote assistance personnel. It may be that the driver of the vehicle or another user of the vehicle in the logistics network has made a request for help, or because the vehicle has sent a distress signal, such as" I see something not in my comfort zone, tell me what you think I should do, "he said Even so, the advice of Remote Assistance cannot be part of the functional safety of the car. " Sterling Anderson declined to reveal how much Aurora has invested in the monitoring system, when the teleassist equipment will be opened, when it will be put into use and other details. Under the leadership of Chris Urmson, the Google self driving car project, Aurora has appeared in public since 2018 and has raised about $700 million (about 4 billion 908 million yuan) so far. In February 2019, Amazon participated in Aurora's round B financing, which raised more than 530 million US dollars (about 3.716 billion yuan). Currently, in addition to self driving passenger cars, Aurora has begun to test self driving pick-up trucks and self driving trucks, but Anderson declined to discuss whether there is also an auto driving partnership with Amazon in such projects. For a long time, remote operation has been used to operate space probes and UAVs, but not fully used in robot cars. Waymo, a commercial autopilot car company founded by Google in 2016, has also used human monitors to monitor and assist the small trucks which provide automatic driving services. However, such human monitors can not control the vehicle remotely. Although Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla, said that Tesla would become a leading driver of automatic driving technology, its automated driving system Autopilot collected a lot of road data from the driver's office, but the company did not seem to have used remote guidance staff. Anderson, who helped Tesla design the autopilot system, also declined to talk about the practices of his former employer. Anderson said that the delay of cellular network signal and the difficulty of "situation awareness" for remote personnel make it difficult to understand all the important situations faced by the vehicle, which brings too many challenges to safely take over driving control. However, with the continuous improvement of on-board software, methods such as teleassist may help the autonomous driving fleet put into operation faster.