“…On the one hand, Phantom Auto [12] explicitly highlights its potential to enable fleet managers to recruit drivers that work remotely, and thus mitigate regional or even national labor shortages, and by extension access qualified labor at a lower cost. On the other hand, [68] studies remote driving in an international corridor between Spain and Portugal, where not only there is a change in countries and operators (although roaming is possible, it does involve certain performance compromises, as analyzed in [112]), but the two countries also use two different languages. These factors affect the viability of remote operation as a business, since there is an intrinsic cost of training a roster of remote operators to be able to deal with regulations from different countries and regions (e.g., differences in language, driving sides, and signaling standards) potentially within the same workday or even simultaneously.…”