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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: 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.