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Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent by mrlambchop on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:45PM (#13075408)
It seems incredible that this is the source code for the $999 product originally destined to be available this year.

I'm extremely familiar with OBD|CAN and car networks - the embedded code alone is an essay in how trivial something can appear (sending commands to a ECU) without considering the million edge cases that make this a safe product to use.

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Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent by espes on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:48PM (#13075428)
> It seems incredible that this is the source code for the $999 product originally destined to be available this year.

It's not

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Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent by mrlambchop on Thursday December 01, 2016 @02:37AM (#13077873)
Forgive me but it seemed like this was the case. Is this an earlier version of the code or a special opensource clean up then?

http://newatlas.com/geohot-comma-ai-openpilot-open-source/46...

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Re:Autopilot: an open source driving agent by CmdrSprinkles on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:56AM (#13078595)
The ars technical article covers it better http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/11/after-mothballing-comma-...

But in a nutshell:

The company was approached by agencies that had severe concerns over safety and if this would have the required regulations in place.

So the company folded and released this instead.

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