Waymo is doing the same. Mostly self-driving but when they get stuck a human at a help center takes the sticks. There are a lot of edge cases in the real world so it makes sense to just have the car programmed to be very conservative and let a human deal with it.
But, Elon's will demand that these drivers show "commitment to the team" by working 100 hours a week, and his vision for the tech has, ironically, never, been conservative.