George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
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Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#2a little more detail from techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/comma-ai-cancels-the-comma...
It seems that Hotz said, “dealing with regulators and lawyers… isn’t worth it.”
Which seems very unfortunate/shortsighted due to how useful this tech could be. Why not hire someone to deal with them for you?
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#3It's difficult to be sure about George.
He spoke so derisively about other companies that failed to deliver, and now because of the inevitable paperwork that comes with a product that takes over your car for you at times (level-3 autonomy iirc), he too fails to deliver.
If he leaves to join Tesla, it seems pretty irresponsible, given that he's raised $3.1M and has a team of employees relying on him.
But that's all speculation until we see what comes next.
Perhaps I'm unimaginative at ~1:30am, but I can't imagine what he wants comma.ai to do, unless he sells or licenses the product to automakers who can do the paperwork for him.
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#4a little more detail from techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/comma-ai-cancels-the-comma... It seems that Hotz said, “dealing with regulators and lawyers… isn’t worth it.” Which seems very unfortunate/shortsighted due to how useful this tech could be. Why not hire someone to deal with them for you?
That may be just a fig-leaf to plaster over 'we couldn't do it'. It's one thing to release software, it's quite another thing to release this software and have it tested, audited and certified safe and that's definitely part of the process of delivering software that is critical to the well being of the users and the other people you're sharing the road with.
And that second part is part-and-parcel of wanting to operate in this space.
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#5Classic government. Self-driving technology should benchmarked against how good people are at driving (and how often they kill and injure people), as opposed to being proven intrinsically safe like a car part.
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#6There's gotta be something else, no way one letter makes you scrap a product like this, I fail to believe it
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#7There's gotta be something else, no way one letter makes you scrap a product like this, I fail to believe it
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#8I guess that makes Hotz one of the "jokers" now?
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#9a little more detail from techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/comma-ai-cancels-the-comma... It seems that Hotz said, “dealing with regulators and lawyers… isn’t worth it.” Which seems very unfortunate/shortsighted due to how useful this tech could be. Why not hire someone to deal with them for you?
That may be just a fig-leaf to plaster over 'we couldn't do it'. It's one thing to release software, it's quite another thing to release this software and have it tested, audited and certified safe and that's definitely part of the process of delivering software that is critical to the well being of the users and the other people you're sharing the road with. And that second part is part-and-parcel of wanting to oper…
And he would have needed to have performed the development under an appropriately rigorous development process.
Re: George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
#10a little more detail from techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/comma-ai-cancels-the-comma... It seems that Hotz said, “dealing with regulators and lawyers… isn’t worth it.” Which seems very unfortunate/shortsighted due to how useful this tech could be. Why not hire someone to deal with them for you?
I wouldnt doubt that regulators and lawyers may be the biggest hurdle in a project like that. But Im surprised that he did not have a team working on that for him. Elon Musk had to go thru that - and probably still is working thru a lot of that mess. Maybe it will inspire him to hack the system - and improve it.