Listing to an interesting interview with George Hotz.
This section contains an interesting quote on the mission of Comma.ai:
Solve self driving cars while delivering ship-able intermediaries.
The “ship-able intermediaries” makes a ton of sense – this keeps things practical, allows for early feedback, collects tons of data, and follows the principle that innovation typically requires iteration.
Another interesting section – on the business strategy for comma:
Profitable – we did it.
George also mentioned several times that Comma.ai has switched from Tensorflow to Pytorch.
Comma seems like an interesting company/product. Personally, I’m still fairly skeptical about self driving cars and don’t have a lot of interest personally, but this seems like a fairly honest look at the technology and possibilities.
Also, comma.ai platform seems like a really interesting car/vehicle hacking platform in general. It has 4 CAN busses, cameras, display, you can turn on ssh, run your own apps, etc. They also offer a stand-alone vehicle interface.