The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
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Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#2There's 2 possible reasons.
1) It really is near vaporware just being shown off in perfect conditions to seem exceptional.
2) It actually does work that much better with only $1000 worth of hardware and responding would give away the secret sauce.
I don't give much credit to the theory that they didn't see this coming and were caught flat-footed by the sudden requirements.
Oh and:Final speculation: there’s a reason it was called the Comma One. Where there's a Comma One, there's likely to be a Comma Two
I was really hoping it was actually a C64 reference, namely: "where the 'drive' goes"... ,8,1
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#3There's 2 possible reasons. 1) It really is near vaporware just being shown off in perfect conditions to seem exceptional. 2) It actually does work that much better with only $1000 worth of hardware and responding would give away the secret sauce. I don't give much credit to the theory that they didn't see this coming and were caught flat-footed by the sudden requirements. Oh and: Final speculation: there’s a reason…
> I was really hoping it was actually a C64 reference, namely: "where the 'drive' goes"... ,8,1
Actually, the drive number is the “8”; the “1” is a flag which means to load the program to the same address in memory it was saved from, instead of to the default BASIC program start address.
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#4There's 2 possible reasons. 1) It really is near vaporware just being shown off in perfect conditions to seem exceptional. 2) It actually does work that much better with only $1000 worth of hardware and responding would give away the secret sauce. I don't give much credit to the theory that they didn't see this coming and were caught flat-footed by the sudden requirements. Oh and: Final speculation: there’s a reason…
> I was really hoping it was actually a C64 reference, namely: "where the 'drive' goes"... ,8,1 Actually, the drive number is the “8”; the “1” is a flag which means to load the program to the same address in memory it was saved from, instead of to the default BASIC program start address.
In all fairness...
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#5This is a bit of weak spin on the obvious news that they probably couldn't comply with the government requirements.
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#6I'm wary of self-driving systems based only on cameras. He should really wait until cheap LiDARs are available in a few years.
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#7This is a bit of weak spin on the obvious news that they probably couldn't comply with the government requirements.
They weren't given any government requirements, with the the possible exception of the FHMVSS rule that you can't remove the rear-view mirror of the car. The NHTSA Special Order asked only for documentation of extremely basic test plan stuff (road, speed, weather, and traffic limits for the device, along with user documentation).
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#8This is a bit of weak spin on the obvious news that they probably couldn't comply with the government requirements.
3M+ in investment and Atlas over here would rather shrug than hire a lawyer and someone to put together quality management systems?
Bulllllllshiiiiit.
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#9This is a bit of weak spin on the obvious news that they probably couldn't comply with the government requirements.
They weren't given any government requirements, with the the possible exception of the FHMVSS rule that you can't remove the rear-view mirror of the car. The NHTSA Special Order asked only for documentation of extremely basic test plan stuff (road, speed, weather, and traffic limits for the device, along with user documentation).
That was their request for information, yes. But I have trouble believing that the NHTSA would allow you to market some half-baked crap that takes over control of your vehicle.
Maybe that's legal, though. Not great if it is. Anything short of full, reliable automation seems incredibly dangerous.
Re: The Cancelled Comma One Would Have Embarrassed the Car Industry
#10I think it got cancelled because it is a real startup now.
Let me explain! Put yourself in CEO's shoes: you have employees who love working for you but you need to get them a paycheck. From that perspective, it is easy to see that it is kind of crazy to enter into these lengthy government discussions that could possibly ruin your business and delay the entire industry! No thanks!!
If they're all really engineers who just love doin' the work, they will be a valuable contracting outfit doin' the exact same work for a steadier paycheck.