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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has sent a letter demanding George Hotz's company comma.ai provide information pertaining to the safety of their system (https://www.scribd.com/document/329218929/2016-10-27-Special-Order-Directed-to-Comma-ai).
This morning [28 Oct], Ars Technica reports that George Hotz tweeted from Shenzhen that the comma one was now cancelled (https://twitter.com/comma_ai/status/791958413345382400).
comma.ai had just received a $3.1m investment from Andreessen-Horowitz in April (http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/04/technology/george-hotz-comma-ai-andreessen-horowitz/index.html).
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George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @07:44AM
The larger is issue is that all the software must be Free Software, or else the cars abuse users and cannot be even remotely trusted. We have enough DRM, software that violates your privacy, and software that the user can't modify as it is; we don't need vehicles filled with that garbage.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Tuesday November 01 2016, @08:23AM
I agree with your views regarding open source - but it will not happen.
No federal department will approve a system that can be readily changed by the user which might then turn the car into a potentially lethal threat to other road users. They will want it locked down tight [1] with someone responsible for ensuring that the code meets whatever tests were agreed before the software was approved for public use.
[1] For some arbitrary definition of 'tight'
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @09:59AM
I agree with your views regarding open source - but it will not happen.
Then self-driving cars should not happen, and certainly no laws mandating that car drivers use them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01 2016, @10:27AM
If you don't want Panopticon, driverless cars, and digital systems, then you don't want to live in America. As much as I would like to see these things quashed so we can leave a modestly free life of liberty, neither freedom nor liberty exist in America without money, connections, or corrupt power.