Hopefully when it ships it'll be more than an Android phone and some 3D-printed ABS...
Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
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Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
#112Hopefully when it ships it'll be more than an Android phone and some 3D-printed ABS... http://i.imgur.com/VIqWuDG.jpg
Am I the only one who looked at this and thought it was satire through and through? He effectively launched the one comma club? It had a little too many digs at other SV startups and companies, and references to the HBO show...
Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which SoC is it? Jetson?
Snapdragon 820
Nice. Same as these guys? http://www.nauto.com/
So you could basically deploy this as software only, on recent 820 based smartphones? Just need a fish eye lens attachment and CAN bus to USB cable (or USB OTG GPIO)
Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
My understanding is that this will only work with late-model Honda/Acura with LKAS & ACC packages, they hack into these systems for control. http://automobiles.honda.com/sensing/
OK so reading that, those new cars actually have most if not all of the self driving autopilot type features built in, very similar to Tesla (but not anywhere near Googles level). So I am guessing this device mainly just engages those built-in systems a little more frequently than they were designed? I mean what does the product actually do, or is it just basically Honda didn't want to market it as self driving yet b…
> similar to Tesla (but not anywhere near Googles level).
With that comment you probably mean the inherent difference of the Tesla/Hotz/German style of live online interpretation of the world, compared to the inferior Google style offline collected Google maps, where the SW matches the view with the offline world. Because in the Google world you cannot drive a street which is not in the system. The Google system is not advanced enough to interpret changed speed signs, changed roads, temporary road contruction, ...
Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
#115Some thoughts in no particular order, edited from an IRC discussion I just had on this: The price is extremely low. If you drive just 20 minutes per day, and your time is worth at least minimum wage, it makes sense to buy this for just a year, and hopefully it lasts longer than that. But there is a monthly subscription cost ($300 per year) i didn't factor in. And wtf, since when does hardware have a subscription cost…
The price matches available parking assistance packages, which needs even more sensors than this. So it makes sense.
Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
#116Surprised with all the skepticism here. It's not perfect but this guy is a hardware, software, and AI genius and this could very well speed up the self driving race by several years or even more. When it comes to price, it could speed things up by more than a decade. With some funding and a solid team this could move incredibly quickly.
AI genius? lmao