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Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by mgraczyk »

stefan_ wrote: post #13
yewenjie wrote: post #2

AFAIK Comma.ai is the only open-source company in the self-driving cars space. It is very interesting that they are continuously launching consumer-products with a small team and in a highly competitive space where the other players are quite big.

This does not in any shape or form compete in the self-driving cars space; the thing doesn't have a rear camera! This is basically the "rsync as Dropbox" approach to augmenting your car with a hacky version of automatic cruise control, with a bonus lawsuit should you ever be in a crash significant enough to warrant the attention (think paralysis).

If you haven't tried it, I would refrain from making that claim.

I used the v1 of this device for ~1 year, and since then driving has never felt the same. It was sooo much less annoying to do regular commutes when the device took control for even 90% of the trip. This was true even though I still paid attention to the road and had hands ready to take the wheel.

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by Karsteski »

lostmsu wrote: post #16
jalino23 wrote: post #9

huge fan of the CEO. inspired me to use vim 7 months ago and it increased my productivity

In the one I saw he spent 5 minutes (of 30) figuring out a mistake caused by a simple typo, that a regular IDE would wiggle for him the second after he typed it in.

Is there a significant number of people who use vim without any sort of syntax highlighting and linting? I'm still a newb programmer but I started trying to learn neovim this weekend, I can't imagine using it plain...

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

kyle_martin1 wrote: post #18
evanescent wrote: post #7

Has anyone here tried using one of these? On the surface they seem to be relatively reliable and safe. I am tempted to get try one out since their driver cam gives me confidence that I won't become complacent while using one of these self-driving systems.

I use my comma two everyday. Works great. Support from the company is non-existent. I'm kind of pissed because I bought it in the last few months and now they've come out with another one. There should be a trade-in and upgrade program.

They're still selling comma 2 and I still think they support comma 1.

I don't see what's some awesome about this new one, to be honest. I'd like the next one to add blind spot sensors for cars that don't have them.

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by pmcollins »

faebi wrote: post #14

Dave Lee recently had an interesting interview with George Hotz about self-driving cars and the future of AI: https://youtu.be/q6iagfjs83U

awesome video, thank you.

btw if anyone’s wondering what they’re talking about regarding end-to-end, this article explains it:

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/deep-learning-self-driving...

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by MattRix »

geoah wrote: post #5
johnkg wrote: post #3

Comma claimed today: $8.1M raised, $9M revenue, 5000+ comma twos sold, 3500+ active users. Pretty cool for a open source company.

Need to watch the presentation still but I’d be more interested in how many km/miles it has collectively driven.

They said it has been used for over 50 million miles so far, and that there are over 100k minutes of driving being done with it per day.

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by treelovinhippie »

For those new to the comma.ai strategy:

Autopilot is iOS. Openpilot is Android.

Far more devices running Android than iOS in the world. And unlike consumer tech, the average car on the road is over 12 years old.

So there's a long window of opportunity where we might see more people choose to upgrade their current vehicles to self-driving, versus those choosing to buy new vehicles with inbuilt self-driving hardware.

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by haliskerbas »

lostmsu wrote: post #16
jalino23 wrote: post #9

huge fan of the CEO. inspired me to use vim 7 months ago and it increased my productivity

In the one I saw he spent 5 minutes (of 30) figuring out a mistake caused by a simple typo, that a regular IDE would wiggle for him the second after he typed it in.

I personally use Vi(m?) mode in a JetBrains IDE and I consider it to be the best of both worlds.

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by birken »

stefan_ wrote: post #13
yewenjie wrote: post #2

AFAIK Comma.ai is the only open-source company in the self-driving cars space. It is very interesting that they are continuously launching consumer-products with a small team and in a highly competitive space where the other players are quite big.

This does not in any shape or form compete in the self-driving cars space; the thing doesn't have a rear camera! This is basically the "rsync as Dropbox" approach to augmenting your car with a hacky version of automatic cruise control, with a bonus lawsuit should you ever be in a crash significant enough to warrant the attention (think paralysis).

Comma is far and away the best version of "automatic cruise control" that exists in any consumer car. If you think Comma is hacky then wait until you see Tesla's version, which costs $10k and only works on one brand of car!

The stock "automatic cruise control" is most cars is far worse and far more dangerous than Comma, and those companies aren't getting taken down by lawsuits. At the end of the day, the driver is responsible for the operation of the vehicle. Comma is a tool the driver can use, and one that undoubtedly makes driving safer for themselves and other vehicles on the road.

Re: Comma Three Devkit

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Post by varelse »

birken wrote: post #29
stefan_ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This does not in any shape or form compete in the self-driving cars space; the thing doesn't have a rear camera! This is basically the "rsync as Dropbox" approach to augmenting your car with a hacky version of automatic cruise control, with a bonus lawsuit should you ever be in a crash significant enough to warrant the attention (think paralysis).

Comma is far and away the best version of "automatic cruise control" that exists in any consumer car. If you think Comma is hacky then wait until you see Tesla's version, which costs $10k and only works on one brand of car! The stock "automatic cruise control" is most cars is far worse and far more dangerous than Comma, and those companies aren't getting taken down by lawsuits. At the end of the day, the driver is re…

Um... Have you driven a Mach E yet? No interest in its upcoming FSD, but the adaptive cruise control and lane assistance is wonderfully conservative and useful.
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