Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
by jacquesm on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:29PM
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I've worked on CNC mills and lathes, design of the logic and the hardware driving the servos as well as some fuel estimation software for airplanes.
The degree of care that went into the e-stop design of the lathe and mill controller and the number of checks and tests of the fuel estimation software are stuff that I'm (hopefully justified) proud of, that's not stuff to cut any corners with. In both cases that took me longer than Hotz claims to have spent on creating the whole self driving car code, there is no way you can do this safely with that mentality. It is absolutely irresponsible to take that attitude towards systems like this, life is not a video game with 3 more lives if you lose this one (or cause others to lose theirs).
The degree of care that went into the e-stop design of the lathe and mill controller and the number of checks and tests of the fuel estimation software are stuff that I'm (hopefully justified) proud of, that's not stuff to cut any corners with. In both cases that took me longer than Hotz claims to have spent on creating the whole self driving car code, there is no way you can do this safely with that mentality. It is absolutely irresponsible to take that attitude towards systems like this, life is not a video game with 3 more lives if you lose this one (or cause others to lose theirs).