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If you mean what you say: buy this thing, install it on your car, and use it daily. I dare you. Oh right, you'd never do that, because some tiny part of you k
by morogop 9y ago
If you mean what you say: buy this thing, install it on your car, and use it daily.
I dare you.
Oh right, you'd never do that, because some tiny part of you knows that George Hotz was lying his ass off about his tech, and that you'd have to be a crazy person to trust such a flagrant liar with your life.
- tinco 9y agoYeah you're right. I want to buy it though, and then wait a couple of months before plugging it into my own car. I'm just saying you can't just dismiss the guy's ability because he comes across arrogant. He's proven he's a hacker, and now he's trying to prove he's a maker as well. Maybe this Panda thing is engineered really well, and the money and reputation will get him to a point where he can run a nice company. Maybe not and this things get some people killed and he will be thrown in jail for building a recklessly unsafe product, I don't know. I don't own a car right now so all I can do is talk big.
- morogop 9y agoHis arrogance is orthogonal to the issue. The issue is that he was obviously lying. He claimed he was weeks away from autonomous cars. If this was true, he would've sold the tech for a staggering pile of cash. Instead, all the evidence looks like he thought he could solve the problem on his own, in record time. Then he made a pretty basic POC (able to handle a small number of very simple conditions). Then he realized he couldn't do it. And so he pretended that he'd solved a problem nobody else had, but wasn't going to share or sell the answer with anybody else because the government is bad. Unfortunately, some people hate the government enough that they want to believe this. But it's a dumb story and an obvious lie. George Hotz does not have autonomous driving technology. He never did, and he never fucking will. He's a snake oil salesman.
- commaai 9y agoAutonomous vehicle technology, and it's free --> https://github.com/commaai/openpilot https://github.com/commaai/openpilot Working, video by a user --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VN1YcC83nA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VN1YcC83nA Where's the snake oil?
- zaroth 9y agoVery nice, but video cuts right when it would have gotten interesting!
- commaai 9y agoFollow us on twitter, we have multihour periscopes of driving. https://twitter.com/comma_ai https://twitter.com/comma_ai
- oh_sigh 9y agoBrightly lit streets, no traffic, clear lane markings. Does the system work without any of those three things?
- dang 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14719644 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14719644 and marked it off-topic.