When it comes to developing driver assist systems, autonomous vehicles, or even aiming for self-driving cars, it’s never easy. Even corporate behemoths like GM have been struggling to stay in the game when the challenges got to be too much and incidents on the road led to a loss of … [continued]
In a recent video from Comma, we learn how it arrived at the design for its latest hardware, the Comma 3X. For those unfamiliar, Comma takes a very different approach compared to other companies working toward autonomous vehicles. Instead of designing the software and the hardware, and keeping the whole … [continued]
Connected Cars May Be The New Thing
Stories related to autonomous driving tech have been building up, so I’m going to run through a few of them right here. Comma.ai, Waymo, and Xpeng each have some news to bring to the table.
In his “Artificial Intelligence Podcast” series, Lex Fridman interviewed George Hotz, the founder of Comm.ai (among many other things), in the middle of 2019. Comma.ai focuses on machine learning–based vehicle automation. In the almost 2 hour podcast, Hotz shared his thoughts on a variety of things, including a lengthy discussion of Tesla’s efforts toward Level 5 autonomy.
George Hotz and his team of automotive hackers at comma.ai are on a mission to liberate autonomous driving from the corporate overlords that have ruled the space since its inception — even if it means snubbing the authorities at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
George Hotz (aka geohot) was one of the headliners at this year’s Autonomy conference in Paris. He didn’t disappoint, even though he apparently had to skip flying over (at the last minute) and do the presentation and Q&A via Skype.
When the iPhone first came out, it was carrier locked to AT&T, meaning that anyone locked into a contract with T-Mobile or another carrier couldn’t use the iPhone. It’s a far cry from the situation today, where the phone is available on pretty much every carrier on almost every continent, … [continued]
