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Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by DasIch on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:42PM (#12817891)
1-4 is simply providing them with a copy of the instructions. 5, 6, 8 and 9 are incredibly obvious questions that should have been answered during the development. 7 is surely something you know just from the business end of things.

I have no idea what FMVSS is but that there are regulations here should be obvious, no doubt this would be something you'd become aware of after a little bit of research. As a consequence you should have an answer to that. This covers 10-12.

13 and 14 he should have known at the top of his head. 15 it seems you could just say you've nothing to add or drop whatever else you have on hand.

Nothing about this strikes me as unusual, unexpected or hard to answer. There is no way this is the reason Holtz gave up unless the product is a complete failure, he hasn't run any safety tests whatsoever or he's using this as an excuse to cover up something else.

Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by tptacek on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:46PM (#12817951)
I think the subtext of the FMVSS stuff is that the comma one is thought to be replacing the rear view mirror on the car, which is apparently illegal in some states and also prohibited by regulation in cars shipping in the US.
Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by DasIch on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:51PM (#12818011)
I find it hard to believe that anyone of reasonable intelligence, certainly someone intelligent enough to work on self-driving car tech, could miss something so incredibly obvious.

Modifying a car is one thing but directly interfering with parts critical to safety?

Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by ceterum_censeo on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:44PM (#12817922)
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by DasIch on Friday October 28, 2016 @12:46PM (#12817948)
Oh, well that sounds like you'd know about it, if you live in the US. Should make it easier to answer all of this still.
Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’ by djrogers on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:56PM (#12818797)
It's also the first thing that comes up when you google the term - I'd think an autopilot startup wouldn't have a problem with that one...