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If there was a bug in comma ai program (like jerking the driving wheel and slam my car in the guard rail without giving me time to react) I guess I am liable?
That sounds like a bad idea.
The Comma One source code was put online (I think by the author?) and deemed to be incredibly dangerous. If I recall there was very little error handling. Does anyone know what has really changed since then?
Comma.ai represents a strange attitude towards life in which you try to turn hard, serious problems (like self-driving), into trivial problems (write some Python and run it on Android phones and plug it into your car!) and try get away with it. It only has a chance of working if you are cool enough in SV such as geohot. I interviewed there once and it was extremely off-putting how clear their demand for fast progress…
The Comma One source code was put online (I think by the author?) and deemed to be incredibly dangerous. If I recall there was very little error handling. Does anyone know what has really changed since then?
Yeah plenty has changed since then, there are limits that are checked twice to ensure the driver is always able to take control. If violated, the car or openpilot throws an error openpilot.comma.ai
Quick bit of feedback for any Comma employees lurking: It took me a very long time to realize that this was a self-driving solution for existing vehicles. The hero just says "Driven over 6 million miles" and then a "Buy Now". When I scrolled down and looked at the product and read: > We’ve added an infrared camera to provide 24/7 driver monitoring, an integrated panda, a custom cooling solution, and an OBD-C port wit…
Seriously. The website does a pretty crappy job at explaining what the product actually is.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/comma-ai-cancels-the-comma...
Let's say I order this stuff and flash the firmware of my car. If there was a bug in comma ai program (like jerking the driving wheel and slam my car in the guard rail without giving me time to react) I guess I am liable? That sounds like a bad idea.
Can anyone here comment on actually using a Comma product? I don’t even drive a car, but I don’t see why anyone would buy something like this yet. My point being that it’s not full self driving, and frankly its safety is entirely questionable. Self driving is supposed to make driving less stressful, but does having a system like this actually do that? Or does it make you more stressed because you have to be conscious…
As far as safety goes, their safety policy is outlined here: https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/devel/SAFETY.md
the short of it is:
"""
The driver must always be capable to immediately retake manual control of the vehicle, by stepping on either pedal or by pressing the cancel button.
The vehicle must not alter its trajectory too quickly for the driver to safely react. This means that while the system is engaged, the actuators are constrained to operate within reasonable limits.
"""
Those checks are separately coded into both OpenPilot, the self-driving software, and Panda, the microcontroller responsible for communicating between OpenPilot and the vehicle.
Quick bit of feedback for any Comma employees lurking: It took me a very long time to realize that this was a self-driving solution for existing vehicles. The hero just says "Driven over 6 million miles" and then a "Buy Now". When I scrolled down and looked at the product and read: > We’ve added an infrared camera to provide 24/7 driver monitoring, an integrated panda, a custom cooling solution, and an OBD-C port wit…
>The comma two does not ship preloaded with software capable of controlling your car. Open source software can be installed separately.
But then I figured that if it actually did that, they'd be screaming about it, not talking about how you can watch your drives.
Kind of hilarious.
Let's say I order this stuff and flash the firmware of my car. If there was a bug in comma ai program (like jerking the driving wheel and slam my car in the guard rail without giving me time to react) I guess I am liable? That sounds like a bad idea.
https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/a2ae18d1dbd1e59c38...