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Post by leesec »

simondotau wrote: post #16
Ambroos wrote: post #9

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.

If you just click up or down the volume it also recognizes youre awake. I never shake my wheel

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Post by ramraj07 »

gitgud wrote: post #54
xibalba wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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”?

> "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.

If anyone has to have the coding chops of Hotz to be called a nerd then we probably have only 50 nerds in the world. Y’all can definitely log off of HACKER NEWS since the news is definitely not for you!

Re: Comma Three [video]

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Post by blackcat201 »

rvz wrote: post #2

Well done to them. One of the rare startups I've seen that are able to enter into this fierce assisted driving systems market without the hype, lies and deception with less funding and still profitable with hardware. That's how you do it. This recent consumer report on comma.ai on the 'Overall Ratings Results' (page 6) looks very promising. [0] EDIT: Care to elaborate as to what is the matter my comment about this ha…

I am surprised to see Comma Two in a consumer report not to mention out perform all other automative company including Tesla (probably the older version?). I remember in one of Geohot twitch stream bragging about their driver monitoring being really hard to duped.

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Post by ramraj07 »

everly wrote: post #60
xibalba wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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”?

Those may be his origins but these days he seems closer to a glorified carnival barker (albeit a very successful one).

I hate Musk as much as the regular guy but the constant undermining of the people you hate is the reason people who do this are never successful.

Consider for a moment That Musk is a Nerd, a ruthless businessman and a cock all at the same time. He made (or at least partly shaped) companies that definitely do fantastical things. If you keep underestimating him only you loose not him.

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Post by jayd16 »

fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #30
bko wrote: post #8

I happened to check today at what Tesla is driving for "Full Self-Driving Capability" and it's now $10,000. I was originally very interested in the feature, especially since it was available on a car that starts in the low 30s, but that price point seems way out of whack. I'm just glad there's some competition that's not tied to the car manufacturers. I can't trust modern cars to have an 2014 iPad quality touch scree…

They just released a $100/mo. subscription for the FSD features, but I think the more advanced FSD that supposedly can handle city streets has an additional feature flag that’s gated on your safety record or something.

$199/mo actually, unless you know of a deal.

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Post by exogeny »

changoplatanero wrote: post #39
exogeny wrote: post #6

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I know he dropped out and certainly I'm biased as an alumnus, but that's exactly the kind of people I met in college at CMU. I like to think he, like I did, got a little bit of that spirit during many late, late nights in Wean Hall.

I got to meet him for about 10 minutes at cmu while he was waiting for his photo shoot with wired magazine. He was a nice guy but also kind of a weirdo.

Nice guy? Weirdo? Yeah, that sounds like CMU alright. The friendliness of Pittsburgh will ensure the former; the school will exacerbate and exponentially develop the latter.

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Post by systemvoltage »

felgueres wrote: post #18

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

Reminds me of Carmack and Romero doing their thing with shareware games - true hackers, no fucks given, brilliant engineers, screw the corporate bullshit and get on with the business.

Highly recommend - Masters of Doom audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/Masters-of-Doom-David-Kushner-audiobo...

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Post by elevenoh »

sjcoles wrote: post #44
kentonv wrote: post #36

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I once got a recruiting e-mail from comma.ai and the tone was very much acting like obviously I want to work for George Hotz and I'm so lucky he's willing to chat with me so what time should we schedule the meeting? I'd never heard of him nor the company and it all seemed very pretentious. They also sent it to my work address, which is not exactly classy. To be fair, it was probably a bad recruiter, not George's faul…

No, that's on brand. George is a person I'd love to have a conversation with or, hell, work with but could never work for. I have had a Comma 2 for a while and the Discord has soured me to the company a bit. Lets leave it at that.

How so?

It's a refreshingly absurd, curious & blunt community.

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Post by everly »

ramraj07 wrote: post #64
everly wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those may be his origins but these days he seems closer to a glorified carnival barker (albeit a very successful one).

I hate Musk as much as the regular guy but the constant undermining of the people you hate is the reason people who do this are never successful. Consider for a moment That Musk is a Nerd, a ruthless businessman and a cock all at the same time. He made (or at least partly shaped) companies that definitely do fantastical things. If you keep underestimating him only you loose not him.

I certainly don’t hate him and don’t really see how I’m undermining him.

Just providing my opinion on why his reputation is different than someone like George Hotz.

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Post by cyrux004 »

axiomdata316 wrote: post #7

I bought the comma two about a month ago and really like it. Is there anything that comma three can do that the comma two can't do like lane changes without driver checking first, self navigation?

Not for another few months atleast. The model they currently use on c3 was built using c2 data, but it still does perform little better because of better lens/camera on c3 Once they start getting data for c3, then they can really take advantage of c3 hardware including the wide fisheye forward facing lens by building models using that data. At launch, the model only runs on narrow cam.

C3 only features in future includes navigation like you pointed out and possibly stopping at red lights and stop signs. They might try to get redlights/stop sings on c2 but its unclear if they would able either because of camera fov or processing power.

lane changes without user confirmation might be possible on certain cars with blind spot monitoring but definitely not on cars without it. For confident lane changes you not only need to know if there is car in blind spot, but also speed of oncoming cars. This isnt possible without side radars or cams. So even the navigation part when it comes out will require user confirmation

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