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George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 01 2016, @07:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the getting-too-hot? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday November 01 2016, @08:27AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday November 01 2016, @08:27AM (#421168) Homepage
    Absolutely, it looked like the regulators were doing what they're paid to do.
    Quite how Geohot could stand on a stage on September 13th this year in front of a slide that said "shipping by the end of the year" when he hadn't even talked to the regulators yet is astonishing. He is clearly unprepared to work in the automotive domain. (Or expecting to just cheat and lie, like others do, but either way, he shouldn't be in that domain, and the regulators should hold their ground.)
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by SunTzuWarmaster on Tuesday November 01 2016, @01:19PM

    by SunTzuWarmaster (3971) on Tuesday November 01 2016, @01:19PM (#421237)
    I've joked with many friends about this. GeoHot, the hacker famous for unlocking the iPhone and reverse engineering the Playstation promises to make you an aftermarket self-driving car. Just take this hot-glued system and attach it to your existing car! He raised $3M to work on it, which means that up to six people worked on it!

    Seriously, if you were looking for a deathtrap, "aftermarket, unregulated, untested, self-installed, self-driving mode not calibrated for you 2001 Honda" would be it.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:21PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday November 01 2016, @05:21PM (#421318) Journal

    Quite how Geohot could stand on a stage on September 13th this year in front of a slide that said "shipping by the end of the year" when he hadn't even talked to the regulators yet is astonishing.

    That's what got me. I could see legitimate reasons for wanting to withhold information on projects that are many years away from release (who knows where that information goes after the Feds get it), but not talking to regulators three months before a release of a product in a heavily regulated market? I would call it a scam. After all, one doesn't want federal-level supervision when you're bilking investors and customers.