So it turns out geohotz is great at breaking other peoples' stuff and finds making products is harder. Who knew? Soon a 16-year-old will find a massive security vuln in this ODB bridge and the cycle will be complete
Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
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Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
His arrogance is orthogonal to the issue. The issue is that he was obviously lying. He claimed he was weeks away from autonomous cars. If this was true, he would've sold the tech for a staggering pile of cash. Instead, all the evidence looks like he thought he could solve the problem on his own, in record time. Then he made a pretty basic POC (able to handle a small number of very simple conditions). Then he realized…
Autonomous vehicle technology, and it's free --> https://github.com/commaai/openpilot Working, video by a user --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VN1YcC83nA Where's the snake oil?
Very nice, but video cuts right when it would have gotten interesting!
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#123Hotz is quoted as saying in the article, "there are only three real competitors: Waymo, Tesla and us." That's total bullshit. There are so many companies seriously working on autonomous vehicles, such as GM Cruise, Auroa Innovation, Drive.ai, Zoox, Nuro.ai, nuTonomy, Varden Labs, AImotive, Ford, and Nvidia Edit, because George is on here: George, I want to like you, because I think your tech is really good (the stree…
> That's total bullshit. Udacity has their own self-driving vehicle. They built it for their Self-Driving Vehicle Car Engineer Nanodegree program; I just started term 3 yesterday, and apparently they're going ahead with the plan for student to run code on it. https://medium.com/udacity/term-3-in-depth-on-udacitys-self-... Apparently, they have a test track, and will have a safety driver on-board. For that part of the…
I would be very surprised if teams that large actually functioned coherently.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not a nodejs template system.
This is a depressing comment. I'm assuming the parent comment is talking about GNU, Linux, the variety of userspace software from Unix times... not node.js template systems.
Linux didn't become particularly useful or relevant until folks spent a whole lot of very businessy time and money on it. That's why RedHat even exists (not that they were alone, but they survived).
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the guy who was supposedly just a few weeks away from shipping a bolt-on smart cruise control module, then immediately canceled the entire thing when the NHTSA asked him some questions about its safety. He seems pretty sharp when it comes to technology, but I'm not sure if he's prepared to make actual products sold to regular people.
On the contrary, he seems to the the kind of person that knows about the bureaucratic nature of NHTSA and cut his losses.
Cruise sold for >$1B. If he thought his company was better off than that, it is supremely irrational to not put up with the pain of the NHTSA. Hell, just hire a lawyer to do everything and you don't even need to think about it.
No, from my guess, Hotz copped out when he realized that his prototype, while fun, was no where near production ready and would be completely illegal to ship to any customers.
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#126OK so it's a $4 ESP8266 and maybe something else that plugs into the OBDII port. Why do I need this?
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#127Can't you see most of Panda's information with a $6 bluetooth OBDII adapter? (something like http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mini-OBD2-OBDII-V2-1-Android-B...)
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#128Can't you see most of Panda's information with a $6 bluetooth OBDII adapter? (something like http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mini-OBD2-OBDII-V2-1-Android-B... )
I have one of those; as far as I could tell they're crappy non-compliant Chinese knockoffs of real ELM327 chips. I wasn't able to get much of anything good or interesting out of it and had to get a Beaglebone with CAN bus cape to get any farther (other problems with that but that's separate).
Hotz confirms if you read the comments on the article.
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the contrary, he seems to the the kind of person that knows about the bureaucratic nature of NHTSA and cut his losses.
Cruise sold for >$1B. If he thought his company was better off than that, it is supremely irrational to not put up with the pain of the NHTSA. Hell, just hire a lawyer to do everything and you don't even need to think about it. No, from my guess, Hotz copped out when he realized that his prototype, while fun, was no where near production ready and would be completely illegal to ship to any customers.
73 people are using our technology today, that's actually more than Cruise, even over a year later...
Re: Comma.ai launches an $88 universal car interface called Panda
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Autonomous vehicle technology, and it's free --> https://github.com/commaai/openpilot Working, video by a user --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VN1YcC83nA Where's the snake oil?
Very nice, but video cuts right when it would have gotten interesting!
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