I PASSED my practical AV test - No.7 🤖✅ Got the call at 1PM today from my manager. Said I passed. I said thank you, hung up, and sat in silence for 10 seconds. 2 months ago I was doing car consignment full time. Today I cleared my AVSO practical - 45 to 60 mins of pure focus where you have

Plot twist: I was calm. Like, really calm. Everyone else was pacing, I was sitting with eyes closed doing my scan in my head. During the test, time slowed down. Mirror, road, dashboard, repeat. It felt like meditation but alert. There was one moment where I had to decide to trust the system and

People think AVSO training starts when I get in the car. It starts at 5am. I used to be a snooze 5 times guy. Now I can't. If I train my brain to be slow in the morning, I'll be slow in the car. So no phone, no talking, no noise for the first hour. Just: 5:00 wake up 5:15 coffee + silen

This job is not what TikTok makes it look like. Before training I thought I'd be chilling while the car drives. Real rules: 1. No phone at all. Not even 1 second. 2. No eating, drinking, zoning out while in monitoring mode. 3. No sharing anything from inside - routes, screens, what the c

I thought self-driving = no human. I was wrong. Day 3 as trainee and my brain is rewired: 1. It's NOT driverless, it's human + AI team. I'm the safety net. 2. It's NOT easy money. It's 4 hours of pure focus. Introvert or not, you're drained. 3. It does NOT work perfec

Everyone thinks AVSO is about driving. It's not. It's about NOT losing focus for 4 hours straight while the car does 95% of the work. As an introvert, this is my zone. No small talk, just me and my brain. My 3 tricks from training that actually work (and follow safety protocol): 1. 20-s

After years in used car sales, I'm now training to be an Autonomous Vehicle Safety Operator. I'm documenting everything I CAN share - the learning curve, the mindset shift, the introvert struggles of staying hyper-alert for hours. What I WON'T share: routes, tech details, company info