> It’s a back up system in case The vehicle gets stuck

People seems to be thinking emergency control, but that would make no sense. Imagine being dropped into a completely unknown setting, milliseconds away from a crash and being expected to take over the wheel. That's pretty obviously not what this is about, it can't be much beyond a car that hasn't moved in a few minutes because it's stuck.

Tele-operate conjures images of RoboTaxi simulator on Steam, or something.

What's really going on is it's more like Air Traffic Control for a taxi fleet - a welcome and very necessary step.

"Oh 47 is stuck behind a fruit truck, requesting illegal go-around. Authorize it"

The other robot taxi systems with cars actually on the road are SAE level 4 systems. Unless Tesla's will also be level 4 or 5 they are not comparable. Their current consumer FSD systems are level 2.

I'd really like if Tesla had the same system as Waymo, i.e. a disambiguation and no direct control. If it is direct control, i won't trust it.