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[Geohot]’s Self-Driving Car Cancelled

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Elliot Williams

George [Geohot] Hotz has thrown in the towel on his comma one self-driving car project. According to [Geohot]’s Twitter stream, the reason is a letter from the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), which sent him what basically amounts to a warning to not release self-driving software that might endanger people’s lives.

This comes a week after a post on comma.ai’s blog changed focus from a “self-driving car” to an “advanced driver assistance system”, presumably to get around legal requirements. Apparently, that wasn’t good enough for the NHTSA.

When Robot Cars Kill, Who Gets Sued?

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Tesla’s Clever Plan To Push Self-Driving Cars Into the Mainstream

Posted on October 20, 2016 by Bryson Masse for Motherboard

Plenty of observers say that self-driving cars aren’t ready for prime time. Continue reading Tesla’s Clever Plan To Push Self-Driving Cars Into the Mainstream→

Newsflash: A Bunch of Arduinos is Not an Autonomous Car

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Elliot Williams

Nobody’s perfect. Sometimes you’re up late at night writing a blog post and you stumble upon an incredible story. You write it up, and it ends up being, well, incredible. IEEE Spectrum took the bait on this video (embedded below) where [Keran McKenzie] claims to have built a self-driving car for under $1,000 AUS with Arduinos.

The video is actually pretty funny, and we don’t think it’s intended to be a mass-media hoax as much as a YouTube joke. After letting the car “take over” for a few seconds, it swerves and [Keran] pretends to have hit something. (He’s …read more

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Self-Driving R/C Car Uses An Intel NUC

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Jenny List

Self-driving cars are something we are continually told will be the Next Big Thing. It’s nothing new, we’ve seen several decades of periodic demonstrations of the technology as it has evolved. Now we have real prototype cars on real roads rather than test tracks, and though they are billion-dollar research vehicles from organisations with deep pockets and a long view it is starting to seem that this is a technology we have a real chance of seeing at a consumer level.

A self-driving car may seem as though it is beyond the abilities of a Hackaday reader, but while it …read more

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A 60s Japanese Cartoon Predicted Our Autonomous Car Dilemma

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Jordan Pearson for Motherboard

Automating cars means automating death. Continue reading A 60s Japanese Cartoon Predicted Our Autonomous Car Dilemma→

[Geohot] Selling His “Self-Driving” Car Tech for $1k by New Year

Posted on September 17, 2016 by Mike Szczys

This week [Geohot] announced the launch of his self-driving car hardware. This is the natural extension of his proof-of-concept shown off in December which he parlayed into a Silicon Valley startup called comma.ai. [Geohot], whose real name is [George Holtz], is well know for jailbreaking the iPhone and making Sony look like idiots when they retroactively crippled Linus support on PS3. He has hardware chops.

Initial self-driving add-on hardware only works with Honda and Accura models that already have lane-keeping assist features because those vehicles already have built-in front radar. The package, which replaces the rear view mirror, adds a …read more

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