George Hotz: Comma.ai, OpenPilot, and Autonomous Vehicles | Lex Fridman Podcast #31

There's a few Lex Fridman podcasts with George Hotz, the founder. Highly recommend them: #31 ▶ this video #132 [link] #387 [link]

in “Open-source self-driving for 325 car models from 27 brands” · View on HN

I loved this interview Lex Fridman had with George Hotz. He's very opinionated original thinker with the credentials to back it up. He runs comma.ai, sellers of a device that can plug into many cars and drive for you. ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episode of 2020?” · View on HN

I strongly recommend Lex Firdman’s recent interview with George Hotz where they covered this topic in some detail ▶ this video

in “Camera vs. Lidar” · View on HN

▶ this video This Lex Friedman interview is pretty explanatory on the topic of responsibility. A couple of highlights, which point to Comma being at minimum more responsible than Tesla: Comma doesn't advertise itself as anything beyond L2, unlike Tesla; Comma doesn't fuck up eye-detection, it refuses to cooperate with a driver who has their eyes off the road.

in “Comma Two Devkit” · View on HN

for specifics, would recommend to simply read the code. for overall context, geohot has done interviews ([0], [1]) and that give overview of comma/openpilot at high level. [0] [link] [1] ▶ this video

in “Show HN: Autopilot written in Keras for Self Driving Cars” · View on HN

I suspect this is yet another story sponsored by the Tesla shorts. Just saw an excellent two hour interview by Lex Fridman of George Hotz and he goes into details why he thinks camera will win over lidar. But he also admits that presently Google is ahead of everyone in the race for level 5, but raises the question of whether they can ever do it economically enough to make money on it? ▶ this video 2 hours! Money quote is when Lex tells him, ""Some non-zero part of your brain has a madman in it" I'd argue that is true of many of the greatest inventors of our time.

in “Camera vs. Lidar” · View on HN