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Post by agumonkey »

everly wrote: post #34
slg wrote: post #22

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.

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.

I'm always stumped by geohotz legend, he jailbroke the iphone on his own, then took some vuln from another team and used it on a sony device. Am i missing something else ? He seems super brilliant and fast but I think there's a lot of imaginary genius .. and in that way I don't think hotz differs much from Musk (overselling his dreams because most humans do that)

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Post by agumonkey »

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.

Last time I've heard of his streams he started on a grandiose project and bailed out when stuck after a few hours.

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Post by cyrux004 »

stephc_int13 wrote: post #10

Glad to see some genuine tech startup trying to tackle hard problems. But I think Geohot should not try to mimic some of the silicon valley tropes. The communication is OK but sometimes borderline cringy…

I dont why people feel cringy. His ability to higher level concepts into simple terms is really good.

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Post by system2 »

I would never add a 3rd party device that controls my steering or other moving component of my car. Not even electrical including the main computer of my car. I get it, this is a new niche AI type stuff. My car is the last thing I will mess with hacker type devices like this.

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Post by ramesh31 »

cyrux004 wrote: post #74
ramesh31 wrote: post #58

I'm a huge Comma fan and drive every day with openpilot, but $3k for this is crazy. Think they might have jumped the gun on that.

$2.2k for standard edition. same harness as comma two.

>$2.2k for standard edition. same harness as comma two.

I'm still on an EON from 2018 so I'll need the new harness, which makes it $2400 for the base model. Really hard to justify the price of a loaded Macbook until they have navigation integrated with lane change and highway exits.

I'm honestly glad that they went all in and finally did a custom piece of hardware, but I think they could have cut $500 on the price by using an LCD screen and sold way more units.

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