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Are you sure about that? What about "non-serious" companies? Various fly-by-night self-driving startups? Fly-by-night self-driving startups will at some point run into issues with the NHTSA. George Hotz self-driving car project was shut down as soon as he announced that he'd start selling some prototype. States require permits just to be allowed to test self-driving prototypes on the open road. I don't know what the…
It doesn't look like it was shut down? http://comma.ai
> In the days that followed, Hotz abandoned his plans to sell Comma One directly. Instead, he embarked on a regulatory workaround: this current path of selling just the hardware and open-sourcing the code behind it, meaning it is available for free. He says often, “We are not selling a consumer product.”