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ai.bythebay.io: George Hotz, Self-Driving Lessons from Comma AI

123K views · May 24, 2017 · 40:37 · 3 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2018–2021

George Hotz of Comma AI gives a 2017 conference talk on lessons from building a self-driving system. He argues about how driving should be defined and why the common approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters point to it as a candid, contrarian view of self-driving approaches and the real limits of the business.

“George Hotz has a killer talk about why the general approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed. I highly recommend it.”HN comment, 2019

What Hacker News said 3

Strongly recommendswhalesaladDec 2019

“George Hotz has a killer talk about why the general approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed. I highly recommend it.”

Why general approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed

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Pipe dream. Even if a driverless car was to exist.. it has to contend with millions of other vehicles all being driven by human beings. George Hotz has a killer talk about why the general approach to autonomous vehicles is flawed. I highly recommend it. this video

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RecommendsarichMay 2018

“His whole talk is interesting but the short part about that is here”

Hotz on defining driving as humans drive, quirks included

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George Hotz had a great point about this and how Comma.ai handles defining the driving problem and what "driving badly" actually means, aka, interacting with and driving as other humans are expected to drive, quirks included. His whole talk is interesting but the short part about that is here: this video

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“he is very open about limitations and the actual reality of the self driving business.”

Hotz candid about limits and reality of self-driving business

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You might want to have a look into the public output of George Hotz. Obviously he is a little biased towards his own efforts, but he is very open about limitations and the actual reality of the self driving business. this video Note: He regularly runs a Twitch livestream coding stuff in the space, recordings are on YouTube, very high signal low noise stuff there.

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