Google Will Pay You To Ride In Its Self Driving Cars

Alphabet Inc

unit Google now offers a salary of $20 an hour for persons who babysit in its self-driving cars and provide feedback to the project's engineers, according to a report on The Drive. https://www.yahoo.com/news/google-pay-20-hour-babysit-170000563.html Google is recruiting people in Chandler, Arizona to monitor the progress of its self-driving Lexus RX sport-utility vehicles including how it handles traffic. "The role of test driver is so new that there isn't a particular type of person that we look for," Google self-driving program head of operations Brian Torcellini told azcentral.com, the website for The Arizona Republic newspaper. "We've hired people from all types of backgrounds, from English teachers to orbital welders. In general, they need to be excellent drivers who pay really close attention to the road and can predict the social aspects of driving." The report said though the $20-an-hour salary may not be on par with cities like New York or San Francisco, "it's a pretty solid wage" for the greater Phoenix region.