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Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by brianbreslin »

dawnerd wrote: post #30
uxcn wrote: post #10

“It is fully functional. It’s about on par with Tesla Autopilot,” Hotz said. It doesn’t have a lot of sensors as the Comma One relies on built-in car front radars and comes with a camera. This seems a bit precarious.

My car, a Passat 2016 has both of those and does an okay job keeping itself in the lane and such. Only with VW would be more aggressive about updating their cars firmware. They've got all the components to be pushing forward. But just like all the other car companies they'd rather wait until 2017 models to make any improvements.

Its probably built into their old school model that even if they could do firmware updates (likely still via USB), that they don't in order to get you to replace the entire vehicle sooner. Just speculating

Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by nzjrs »

joering2 wrote: post #69
mdonahoe wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may think differently when someone you know or care about is killed by an AI controlled vehicle. Apparent reckless use of technology frightens people, regardless of the actual risk.

I'm not saying their solution is perfect. Nothing is. But will I send a hate mail to utensil factory because I cut myself with their kitchen knife? No, I won't.

There is a gulf of a difference between saying 'nothing is perfect' and therfore excusing crap - and making a reliable safe product.

That difference is engineering, and we undervalue it at our peril.

Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by Rainymood »

Haven't seen any comments on the actual presentation. I'm about halfway in so far and am really enjoying it. His energy, his style, his slides, it all just fits so well together he feels like a less polished and maybe a bit more crazy mix between Balmer and Jobs. I love it. A lot of fun to watch!

Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by mannykannot »

slg wrote: post #18
hoahluke wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It only works with vehicles which have built-in capability of auto steering and braking

What do you mean by "auto steering and braking"? Does this simply turn on settings that already exist in the car or does this actually control the car through fly by wire commands? If it is the latter, is this something that car manufacturers actively support third parties doing? To the layman like me, that seems like a huge potential liability.

It is the same mechanism that allowed a Jeep's brakes to be hacked remotely, extended to the steering. So yes, car manufacturers do implement and ship extremely poorly thought-out ideas.

Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by T-A »

spectrum1234 wrote: post #47
cbHXBY1D wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's geohot's company but I don't think it lends it anymore credibility. Hacking is very different from building a viable product. Moreover, some of his comments make me distrust his judgement. Just from a CNN article this year: > "For awhile, I thought it was going to be incredibly difficult to contribute," he said. In January 2015, he started working as a researcher at Vicarious, a company that's building arti…

Because he's a genius?

Because just about everybody in this space, except a small number of well known, mostly academic old-timers, is a noob.

Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by dharma1 »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #77

George is trashtalking the sellouts, but I wouldn't be surprised if comma.ai is sold in the first quarter of 2017.

It may well be the strategy - I'm not convinced they actually expect people to stop worrying about death, buy and use the $999 box. They will certainly not ship large amounts of units by end of the year, and risk several accidents at this stage with effectively very alpha software/hardware combo.

I think they will get somewhere, if not in self driving cars then something else to do with machine learning.

Re: Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year

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Post by dexterdog »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #77

George is trashtalking the sellouts, but I wouldn't be surprised if comma.ai is sold in the first quarter of 2017.

This guy is a different breed. He had a chance to work for Tesla, but he wanted to do it himself. I hope I'm not just in the fog on this, but I want to believe that he is a true disruptor.
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