I love the idea of Comma. It makes a lot of sense to have an after-market instrument to drive your car. There's no reason you have to re-build a car. You can probably get very far with just a few sensors and connecting to existing car controls. Humans drive perfectly well without lidar or a large number of cameras, so a bot should be able to as well. You can tell how full of shit a company is by the number of tangential things in their mission statement. If they want self driving, and all electric, and made from recycled parts, and give back 2% to the environment, they're prob full of it.
Comma is taking an incremental approach which I like. Most driving is done on long monotonous roads going straight. If you can eliminate that portion, you'd add huge value.
The other cool thing is that its completely open-source (except for code used to train the models). You can install it on your own device and run it, or fork it. I read a high percentage of users use custom forks of the software. They also have a discord where you can talk to the engineers and people working there if you have any issues or questions. Imagine calling someone from Toyota and just being connected to a auto-engineer?
There's a lot to like about Comma. There are few businesses out there with this mindset. I hope other companies take their lead and think outside the box and stop worrying about the next round and just get some hackers together and build something people want.
Comma is taking an incremental approach which I like. Most driving is done on long monotonous roads going straight. If you can eliminate that portion, you'd add huge value.
The other cool thing is that its completely open-source (except for code used to train the models). You can install it on your own device and run it, or fork it. I read a high percentage of users use custom forks of the software. They also have a discord where you can talk to the engineers and people working there if you have any issues or questions. Imagine calling someone from Toyota and just being connected to a auto-engineer?
There's a lot to like about Comma. There are few businesses out there with this mindset. I hope other companies take their lead and think outside the box and stop worrying about the next round and just get some hackers together and build something people want.