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

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Post by piyushmakhija » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 9:51 PM UTC

Comma.ai will ship a $999 autonomous driving add-on by the end of this year
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Post by Kenji » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 10:43 PM UTC

The company’s Autopilot system is in active use, and in fact just got an update this past weekend that should vastly improve its performance and decrease the possibility that the car doesn’t brake when it should.

I am not gonna lie - that does not give me a lot of confidence in this system. "Oh, and by the way, it sometimes doesn't brake when it should." That quickly equals injury or even death with a car. You do not want to move fast and break things with your car.

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Post by isuckatcoding » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 10:50 PM UTC

Jailbreaking cars now? Good for him! Can't wait to see this in action.

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Post by stale2002 » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 10:56 PM UTC

Go Go GeoHotz! You need to host meetups or something sometime so I can come by and checkout your kick ass awesome self driving cars. -bcwade

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Post by asimuvPR » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 10:59 PM UTC

All I can think about is the reliability of the hardware and how a failure could set back the market years (if not more due to regulation). I really hope this was properly engineered by seasoned automotive engineers.

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Post by joesmo » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 11:00 PM UTC

If it really works like they say and can be added to any car, that's pretty huge. I'd definitely buy one. I wonder what it takes to install it ...

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 11:01 PM UTC

Kenji wrote: post #2

The company’s Autopilot system is in active use, and in fact just got an update this past weekend that should vastly improve its performance and decrease the possibility that the car doesn’t brake when it should. I am not gonna lie - that does not give me a lot of confidence in this system. "Oh, and by the way, it sometimes doesn't brake when it should." That quickly equals injury or even death with a car. You do not…

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Post by mortenjorck » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 11:04 PM UTC

  Mountain View to San Francisco

Is this product actually just limited to driving 280 / 101? If so, that's a really interesting way to launch a minimum viable product in the self-driving space: Obviously you can't launch with anything incomplete in terms of safety, but you can launch with a highly restricted supported geography.

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Post by slg » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 11:04 PM UTC

How does this actually control the vehicle? Is there a physical component that literally moves the steering wheel or presses the brakes?

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Post by uxcn » Tue, Sep 13, 2016, 11:07 PM UTC

    “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.