Re:George Hotz cancels his Tesla Autopilot-like ‘comma one’
by jacquesm on Friday October 28, 2016 @01:59PM
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Designing a self driving car on a hobby budget probably isn't doable ($3M doesn't cut it). 100K pages is probably on the high side, but let's say the order of magnitude is correct (25K, 50K, 100K, it's effectively all the same).
I think that he could have gotten away with showing a substantial effort towards answering the questions and getting some kind of experimental license to verify the technology is viable, I emphatically do not believe that the goal was to 'kill the company' given that all these questions have - for the automotive industry - reasonable answers and that if Hotz was serious about this that he should not have been totally blindsided by this request.
If he was then he should probably have researched the space a bit better before embarking on the project, it's one thing to be a 'hot hacker' but it's quite another to go into this business without the required knowledge about what being in that business will entail.
Trying to imagine SpaceX/Elon Musk backing out of the rocket business because 'the paperwork is just too damn complicated and lawyers are no fun', ditto for Tesla, Google or any other party that is trying to re-vamp some branch of industry.
If the tech is for real the reporting requirements are a reasonable extra cost to be born by the company, the amount of money available for this tech would dwarf the cost of the reporting.
I think that he could have gotten away with showing a substantial effort towards answering the questions and getting some kind of experimental license to verify the technology is viable, I emphatically do not believe that the goal was to 'kill the company' given that all these questions have - for the automotive industry - reasonable answers and that if Hotz was serious about this that he should not have been totally blindsided by this request.
If he was then he should probably have researched the space a bit better before embarking on the project, it's one thing to be a 'hot hacker' but it's quite another to go into this business without the required knowledge about what being in that business will entail.
Trying to imagine SpaceX/Elon Musk backing out of the rocket business because 'the paperwork is just too damn complicated and lawyers are no fun', ditto for Tesla, Google or any other party that is trying to re-vamp some branch of industry.
If the tech is for real the reporting requirements are a reasonable extra cost to be born by the company, the amount of money available for this tech would dwarf the cost of the reporting.