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Missed a real opportunity here to call it Tres Comas. The beginning of the video complete with awkward nerd dancing in a dayglo hoodie is also pitch-perfect Silicon Valley.
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I've wondered if there is any relation. context: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ginapace/2019/11/29/diageo-laun...
facepalm nope its just their naming strategy, comma.ai -> comma, comma two, comma three... presumably comma four?
stick around for the questions -- the one about how he does nav is amazing. Just stick a convnet on it and feed it in like anything else. As an aside, does anyone else get richard feynman vibes from the way geohot speaks?
I've definitely noticed it as well. It's that very specific northeastern accent combined with his sheer enthusiasm for everything.
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Hotz is a true hacker, Musk is a pseudo-nerd businessman. Tesla overstates their capabilities and is more interested in keeping their stock price high than in doing what is best for consumers.
> pseudo-nerd businessman I find this attitude towards Musk so, so odd. Where are you getting your info? He was coding PC games as a teen, wrote the code for zip2, was the cto at x.com, and taught himself rocket science from textbooks (as confirmed by other rocket scientists). If that’s a “pseudo nerd”, who qualifies as a “real nerd”?
If you don't code for 30 years, people might not call you a coder anymore.
Hotz on the other-hand still regular live-streams himself programming and hacking.
What is important about comma is the culture they seem to be building. A no frills, technology-first company that is uninterested in speculating their value. I would bet any day on a company that doesn’t thrive by shilling, with conviction to win and sheer skills turned up to 11. That’s the kind of folks that push civilization forward
Having done a Seattle > SF > LA and back roadtrip with a Comma 2 back in March/April, this looks really cool. Even with the very modest hardware of the Comma 2, it effectively takes all the stress out of highway / stay-in-lane driving. In my Audi A3, the car's ACC handles the accelerator and brakes, and openpilot handles the steering. It made the trip a whole lot more relaxing. It was also just a whole lot of fun to…
> Autopilot in a Model Y … the way it disengages completely when you make even just a small correction is really annoying. Wait, so Autopilot disengages if you don’t apply enough torque to the steering wheel and disengages if you apply too much torque to the steering wheel? That doesn’t sound like an enjoyable autonomous driving experience.
It is weird that the general opinion of Comma on HN appears to be positive while the general opinion of Tesla's Autopilot on here is generally more negative. It seems to me that all the complaints about Tesla including marketing, safety, and technological feasibility apply as much or more for Comma.
You'd be right, except IIRC Comma hasn't gotten anyone killed because of (at best) misunderstood advertising (or seeing a barrier as a road, etc.).
If you're competent enough to get Comma running, you're probably technical enough (and invested enough!) to read the instructions and understand the operational limits of the system.
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Hotz is a true hacker, Musk is a pseudo-nerd businessman. Tesla overstates their capabilities and is more interested in keeping their stock price high than in doing what is best for consumers.
> pseudo-nerd businessman I find this attitude towards Musk so, so odd. Where are you getting your info? He was coding PC games as a teen, wrote the code for zip2, was the cto at x.com, and taught himself rocket science from textbooks (as confirmed by other rocket scientists). If that’s a “pseudo nerd”, who qualifies as a “real nerd”?